
Root bacteria are known to form symbiotic relationships with plants by improving the plants’ supply of nutrients. Yet as scientists found recently, the bacteria actually play a much more profound role. During field experiments in Utah, in the western USA, researchers discovered that the right mixture of soil microbiota directly influences the survival of Nicotiana attenuata, a species of wild tobacco.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825103241.htm