#exudates
Interested in root exudates at early plant life stages? Have a look at our recent paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.plan…#Exudateses decrease strongly durin#plantdevelopmentnt an#metabolomeme shifts from sugar-dominated to secondary exudates. Work led by Ben Hafner at TUM and Taryn Bauerle’s Cornell lab
February 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Really nice to see the second paper of PhD student Fangbin Hou out in SBB!!!

She did a massive experiment and found that across 17 grassland species, root exudates from plants that experienced drought trigger more microbial respiration. (1)
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Root exudates from drought-affected plants increase soil respiration across a range of grassland species
Root exudates play an important role in ecosystem carbon (C) cycling. Drought can alter the quality and quantity of root exudation, but it is not clea…
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January 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📢 Root exudates: invisible, fast-changing chemical signals shaping microbes, neighbors and soil. 🦠🌱
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January 14, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Farage's face exudates hate.
September 23, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Wonderful to see this beautiful image on the cover of Science this week highlighting a paper that uses high resolution imaging to show the spatial patterns of bacterial attraction to glutamine from roots.
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
When roots talk, bacteria respond: Comparative transcriptomics of three plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria growing on root exudates reveals plant-specific responses

-in Rhizospere

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When roots talk, bacteria respond: Comparative transcriptomics of three plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria growing on root exudates reveals plant-specific responses
In the rhizosphere, plant roots release rhizodeposits, including a complex mixture of molecules known as root exudates. These compounds mediate the re…
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February 24, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Oh, and *how* should we collect root exudates, of course 😅
June 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
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Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Amazing work by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and colleagues from @nikogeldner.bsky.social, Feng Zhou @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social labs in Science

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

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#chemotaxis #MicroSky
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Certain root exudates selectively encourage helpful microbial species.
July 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Root-secreted proteins: an underexplored component of root exudates

@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social Forum from @manuelkleiner.bsky.social

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August 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Glyphidops flies (Diptera: Neriidae) are saprophytic insects, adults feed on fermenting plant exudates, aiding in nutrient cycling and organic matter decomposition. Larvae develop in decaying vegetation, accelerating the breakdown of plant material and enriching soil fertility. 🧪
February 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
you wanna trade fuckin exudates or naw
May 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
*Thinking of titles for this post*

"IT CAME FROM THE CHERRY TREE!"
"MASSIVE GUMMOSIS FROM THIS TREE TRUNK"

*Hmmmmm* 🤔 🤭 😂 😂 😂
August 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Extremely proud of Eileen Enderle for publishing her second PhD paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social !!

She shows that the impact that drought has on plant-soil feedback is mediated by soil bacterial and fungal communities.
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Drought legacy effects on plant growth and plant–soil feedback are mediated by soil microbial communities independently of root exudates and root litter
The results show that drought indirectly restricts plant growth, which is not mediated by root exudates or root litter, but through altering microbial biomass and community composition. These finding...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
C'mon! It's just natural plant exudates.
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*Sigh* But yeah, those are nuts
August 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Check out this new pub led by Melanie Brunn on "Tree carbon allocation to root exudates: Implications for carbon budgets, soil sequestration, and drought response"

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Tree carbon allocation to root exudates: Implications for carbon budgets, soil sequestration, and drought response
Abstract. Root carbon (C) exudation plays a central role in nutrient acquisition, microbially-mediated organic matter decomposition, and many other critica
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March 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: Root exudates as the architects of the rhizosphere microbiome (Plant Physiol.) @cornepieterse.bsky.social @gstringlis.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/3AyltI0

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Review: Root exudates as the architects of the rhizosphere microbiome | Plantae
The “Green Revolution” transformed global food production through the use of fertilizer, but at the expense of rising costs and reliance on non-renewable inputs, prompting modern agriculture to shift…
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December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Tree carbon allocation to root exudates: Implications for carbon budgets, soil sequestration, and drought response https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaf026
March 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@richphillipslab.bsky.social presenting his famous method for collecting root exudates from intact tree roots at #Rhizosphere6 🤩
June 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
These Beech Blight Aphids (aka "boogie-woogie aphids") rhythmically wave their pom-pom-like waxy exudates when threatened--here from our camera shutters and closer examination 😮
#bugs #aphid #beechtree #insect #macro #macrophotography #naturephotography #invertebrate #bugsky #insectsky #entomology
September 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
🌱z 9a
"root exudates...remind us that soil is not a passive medium but a living, interactive space in which plants continuously negotiate resources, relationships, and stress."
📢 Root exudates: invisible, fast-changing chemical signals shaping microbes, neighbors and soil. 🦠🌱
A new on our blog ▶️ 📢https://1url.cz/lJAdf
#Rhizosphere #RootExudates #PlantEcology #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #Soil #Exudate #Microbes @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 12:49 AM