Simplified and representative bacterial community of maize roots
Niu B, Paulson J, Zheng X, Kolter R. Simplified and representative bacterial community of maize roots. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2017, 114: e2450-e2459. PMID: 28275097, PMCID: PMC5373366, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616148114.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCommunity assemblyBacterial communitiesDynamics of community assemblyComposition of plant microbiomesBacterial interspecies interactionsSynthetic bacterial communityPlant-associated microbesCulture-dependent methodsRoot microbiome assemblyHost-mediated selectionFusarium verticillioides</i>Maize rootsRoot microbiotaMicrobiome assemblyPlant microbiomeRoot microbiomePlant hostsHost genotypeKeystone speciesDominant phylaAbiotic factorsInterspecies interactionsModel ecosystemsMicrobiomeMaize seedlings