Artificial Selection on Microbiomes To Breed Microbiomes That Confer Salt Tolerance to Plants Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We developed an experimental protocol that improves earlier methods of artificial selection on microbiomes and then tested the efficacy of our protocol to breed root-associated bacterial microbiomes that confer salt tolerance to a plant. Salt stress limits growth and seed production of crop plants, and artificially selected microbiomes conferring salt tolerance may ultimately help improve agricultural productivity.

published proceedings

  • mSystems

altmetric score

  • 26.03

author list (cited authors)

  • Mueller, U. G., Juenger, T. E., Kardish, M. R., Carlson, A. L., Burns, K. M., Edwards, J. A., ... Des Marais, D. L.

citation count

  • 45

complete list of authors

  • Mueller, Ulrich G||Juenger, Thomas E||Kardish, Melissa R||Carlson, Alexis L||Burns, Kathleen M||Edwards, Joseph A||Smith, Chad C||Fang, Chi-Chun||Des Marais, David L

editor list (cited editors)

  • Shade, A.

publication date

  • December 2021