Predicting plant microbiomes through complexity.

Physiological or environmental constraints organize high-diversity rhizosphere microbiota along dominant ecological axes, making microbiome functioning increasingly predictable.

• Why it matters: Linking microbiota composition to functional outputs is difficult in rhizosphere ecology, limiting prediction of how communities behave under different conditions.
• What they did: Moran et al. analyze how constraints structure complex microbial communities, then assess how that organization improves predictability of microbiome functioning.
• The result: Rhizosphere complexity may itself create a predictable ecological organization, supporting more reliable forecasts of microbiome function from community structure.

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