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Open AccessSeed tuber imprinting shapes the next-generation potato microbiome
Potato seed tubers are colonized and inhabited by soil-borne microbes, that can affect the performance of the emerging daughter plant in the next season. In this study, we investigated the intergenerational in...
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Open AccessRapid evolution of bacterial mutualism in the plant rhizosphere
While beneficial plant-microbe interactions are common in nature, direct evidence for the evolution of bacterial mutualism is scarce. Here we use experimental evolution to causally show that initially plant-an...
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Open AccessPseudomonas simiae WCS417: star track of a model beneficial rhizobacterium
Since the 1980s, numerous mutualistic Pseudomonas spp. strains have been used in studies on the biology of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and their interactions with host plants. In 1988, a strain fr...
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In Silico Identification and Characterization of Effector Catalogs
Many characterized fungal effector proteins are small secreted proteins. Effectors are defined as those proteins that alter host cell structure and/or function by facilitating pathogen infection. The identific...
