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Root microbiota drive direct integration of phosphate stress and immunity.
Nature - 23 Mar 2017
Castrillo Gabriel, Teixeira Paulo José Pereira Lima, Paredes Sur Herrera, Law Theresa F, de Lorenzo Laura, Feltcher Meghan E, Finkel Omri M, Breakfield Natalie W, Mieczkowski Piotr, Jones Corbin D, Paz-Ares Javier, Dangl Jeffery L
Abstract excerpt
Plants live in biogeochemically diverse soils with diverse microbiota. Plant organs associate intimately with a subset of these microbes, and the structure of the microbial community can be altered by soil nutrient content. Plant-associated microbes can compete with the plant and with each other for nutrients, but may also carry traits that increase the productivity of the plant. It is unknown how the plant...
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