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Impact of swapping soils on the endophytic bacterial communities of pre-domesticated, ancient and modern maize.
BMC plant biology - 12 Sept 2014
Johnston-Monje David, Mousa Walaa Kamel, Lazarovits George, Raizada Manish N
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BACKGROUND: Endophytes are microbes that live within plants such as maize (corn, Zea mays L.) without causing disease. It is generally assumed that most endophytes originate from soil. If this is true, then as humans collected, domesticated, bred and migrated maize globally from its native Mexico, they moved the species away from its native population of endophyte donors. The migration of maize persists today, as...
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