Abstract
Host genotype affects microbiome composition in many plants, but the mechanisms and implications of this phenomenon are understudied. New work in PLOS Biology illustrates how host genotype leads to differential gene expression and fitness in bacteria of the barley rhizosphere.
Copyright: © 2024 Maggie R. Wagner. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
MeSH terms
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Bacteria / classification
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Bacteria / genetics
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Genotype
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Hordeum* / genetics
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Hordeum* / microbiology
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Microbiota* / genetics
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Plant Roots / genetics
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Plant Roots / microbiology
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Rhizosphere*
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Soil Microbiology
Grants and funding
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (IOS-2016351 and IOS-2033621 to MRW) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (2020-67019-31803 and 2022-67013-36672 to MRW). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.