Artificial Microbiome-Selection to Engineer Microbiomes That Confer Salt-Tolerance to Plants
U. G. Mueller, T. Juenger, M. Kardish, A. Carlson, K. Burns, J. A. Edwards, C. Smith, C.-C. Fang, D. De Marais
This paper develops an artificial microbiome-selection method to engineer salt-tolerant microbiomes for the plant Brachypodium distachyon, showing significant fitness improvements under sodium- and aluminum-sulfate stress.
bioRxiv · Nov 11, 2019 · PreprintPlant Biology