50-Impact of spatial organization on a novel auxot

50-Impact of spatial organization on a novel auxotrophic interaction among soil microbes.TheISMEJournalhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0095-zARTICLEImpactofspatialorganizationonanovelauxotrophicinteractionamongsoilmicrobesXueJiang1●ChristianZerfaß1,2●SongFeng3●RuthEichmann1●MunehiroAsally1,2●PatrickSchäfer1,2●OrkunSSoyer1,2Received:20October2017/Revised:31January2018/Accepted:7February2018©TheAuthor(s)2018.ThisarticleispublishedwithopenaccessAbstractAkeyprerequisitetoachieveadeeperunderstandingofmicrobialcommunitiesandtoengineersyntheticonesistoidentifytheindividualmetabolicinteractionsamongkeyspeciesandhowtheseinteractionsareaffectedbydifferentenvironmentalfactors.Decipheringthephysiologicalbasisofspecies–speciesandspecies–environmentinteractionsinspatiallyorganizedenvironmentsrequiresreductionistapproachesusingecologicallyandfunctionallyrelevantspecies.Tothisend,wefocushereonadefinedsystemtostudythemetabolicinteractionsinaspatialcontextamongtheplant-beneficialendophyticfungusSeren