Jos M. Raaijmakers

This study shows that Streptomyces sp. ATMOS43 detoxifies fusaric acid through amino acid conjugation, protecting plants from Fusarium pathogens.

This study identifies soil microbiological and physicochemical factors influencing Striga seed bank and sorghum infestation in Ethiopian soils.

SynCom101 is a web-based platform that enables standardized, hypothesis-driven design of synthetic microbial communities using genomic and phenotypic data.

This study shows Chitinophaga pinensis can switch between filamentous and spherical morphologies with distinct transcriptional profiles, impacting its behavior and interactions in the plant microbiome.

This study reconstructs microbial consortia responsible for disease suppression in plants by combining dilution-to-extinction experiments with genome-resolved synthetic ecology.

The paper develops RhizoSMASH, a tool to annotate catabolic gene clusters in plant-associated bacteria, revealing niche specialization and predicting rhizosphere competence.

This study shows that plant colonization induces antifungal compound production in root-associated microbes, enhancing plant resistance to fungal pathogens.

The paper isolates and characterizes novel bacteriophages targeting wheat phyllosphere bacteria, identifies DNA modifications and single-strand breaks, and finds widespread distribution of similar phages in public metagenomes.

This study shows that the soil microbiome affects Striga infection and sorghum performance, with Striga seeds influencing the sorghum rhizosphere microbiome.

baseLess detects target sequences in raw MinION data using small neural networks, achieving accurate classification on low-cost hardware.

The paper introduces TbasCO, a trait-based comparative omics approach that identifies ecosystem-level and niche-differentiating adaptations in microbial communities using genome-resolved time-series metatranscriptomics.