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      Diversity of rhizospheric and endophytic microorganisms in medicinal plants is affected by many internal and external factors.

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      Microorganisms regulate the accumulation of SMs in medicinal plants in multiple manners. Medicinal plants reside in a common environment with rhizosphere and endophytic microorganisms. While some rhizospheric and endophytic microorganisms directly synthesize SMs[103], others may promote the biosynthesis of SMs in medicinal plants by secrete plant hormones, such as IAA, SA and ABA into the host cells or activate host immunity-related pathways (e.g. MAPK) pathways[74,85,104,105]. In contrast, some SMs may promote host resistance or affected the microbial composition[106].