Key message Root exudates from Oryza rufi pogon elicit stronger transcriptional responses in benefi cial bacterial endophytes and, together with bacterial inoculation, reveal distinct plant responses compared with cultivated rice, suggesting that microbiome-associated traits altered during domestication could be exploited for sustainable rice breeding. Abstract Beneficial interactions between plants and microorganisms strongly...

Summary Several important bacterial characteristics, such as biological nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilization, 1‐aminocyclopropane‐1‐carboxylate deaminase activity and production of siderophores and phytohormones, can be assessed as plant growth promotion traits. Our aim was to evaluate the effects of nitrogen fixing and indole‐3‐acetic acid (IAA) producing endophytes in two Oryza sativa cultivars (Baldo and Vialone Nano...