A suite of rare microbes interacts with a dominant, heritable, fungal endophyte to influence plant trait expression
J. Harrison, L. P. Beltran, C. A. Buerkle, D. Cook, D. Gardner, T. L. Parchman, S. R. Poulson, M. L. Forister
The paper manipulates rare and dominant endophytes in plants to show that rare endophytes affect host traits only in the absence of a dominant fungal endophyte, and that interactions between endophytes and pathogens can offset negative effects.
bioRxiv · Feb 17, 2021Ecology