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Structure, variation, and assembly of the root-associated microbiomes of rice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Feb 2015
Edwards Joseph, Johnson Cameron, Santos-Medellín Christian, Lurie Eugene, Podishetty Natraj Kumar, Bhatnagar Srijak, Eisen Jonathan A, Sundaresan Venkatesan
Abstract excerpt
Plants depend upon beneficial interactions between roots and microbes for nutrient availability, growth promotion, and disease suppression. High-throughput sequencing approaches have provided recent insights into root microbiomes, but our current understanding is still limited relative to animal microbiomes. Here we present a detailed characterization of the root-associated microbiomes of the crop plant rice by...
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