Sharon E. Zytynska

The paper investigates how landscape-scale factors influence microbial symbiosis in herbivorous insects, showing that habitat complexity, host-plant proportion, and natural enemy abundance drive microbial community structure.

This study shows that fungicide and warming together reduce soil microbial community respiration, metabolic capacity, and plant growth promotion more than either stressor alone.

This study meta-analyzes the effects of rhizobacteria inoculation on insect fitness and behavior, finding reduced herbivore fitness but variable effects based on herbivore type and bacterial species.

This study shows that encapsulating rhizobacteria in alginate beads and inoculating them at root emergence effectively suppresses aphids on barley, outperforming seed soaking methods.

This study shows that rhizobacteria inoculation of barley induces dynamic molecular pathways that enhance plant defense and nutritional responses, reducing aphid populations over time.

This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the costs and benefits of facultative endosymbionts in sap-sucking insects, finding mixed effects dependent on species.