<b><i>Stellera chamaejasme</i></b><b> enhances soil bacterial adaptive potential to facilitate expansion</b>

Poisonous weeds pose severe threats to ecosystem functions and services in grasslands. Soil microorganisms play crucial roles in mediating plant growth and adaptation, yet </a>their responses to poisonous weeds and potential contributions to plant expansion via enhanced microbial adaptability remain elusive.</p><p dir="ltr"><a href="" target="_blank">2.

Here, we carried out a large</a>-scale investigation spanning 3,000 km across grasslands dominated by <i>Stellera chamaejasme</i>, an iconic poisonous weed widely distributed in China, aiming to elucidate soil bacterial community assembly mechanisms, ecological and evolutionary attributes, and co-occurrence network traits, thereby revealing microbial environmental adaptive potential.</p><p dir="ltr">3. The results indicated that stochastic processes played a significantly greater role in shaping soil bacterial community assembly in <i>Stellera</i>-dominated grasslands than control grasslands free of <i>Stellera</i>.