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A suite of rare microbes interacts with a dominant, heritable, fungal endophyte to influence plant trait expression.
The ISME journal - 1 Sept 2021
Harrison Joshua G, Beltran Lyra P, Buerkle C Alex, Cook Daniel, Gardner Dale R, Parchman Thomas L, Poulson Simon R, Forister Matthew L
Abstract excerpt
Endophytes are microbes that live, for at least a portion of their life history, within plant tissues. Endophyte assemblages are often composed of a few abundant taxa and many infrequently observed, low-biomass taxa that are, in a word, rare. The ways in which most endophytes affect host phenotype are unknown; however, certain dominant endophytes can influence plants in ecologically meaningful ways-including by...
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