An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the University of à arhus in Denmark have discovered that bacteria from the plant microbiota are adapted to their host species. In a newly published study, they show how root-associated bacteria have a competitive advantage when colonizing their native host, which allows them to invade an already established microbiota.
Plant root-associated bacteria preferentially colonize their native host-plant roots
- EurekAlert
- 26. 7 2021 (06:00)