“…The remarkable differences between soil and root-associated fungal and oomycete communities described here have been already reported for multiple microbial groups and plant lineages. Studies on several plant species have found compartments, ranging from root-associated soil to the root endosphere, to be the strongest determinants of community variation, following patterns similar to those found here, both in fungi (Almario et al, 2017;Coleman-Derr et al, 2016;Durán et al, 2018;Martínez-Diz et al, 2019;Thiergart et al, 2019) and oomycetes Thiergart et al, 2019), but also in other microbial groups like protists (Sapp et al, 2018) and bacteria (Bulgarelli et al, 2012;Coleman-Derr et al, 2016;Durán et al, 2018;Edwards et al, 2015;Lundberg et al, 2012;Thiergart et al, 2019). Altogether, there is strong evidence that the root surface exerts a control on the entry of soil microorganisms into the root tissues.…”