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SUBMITTER: Haney CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4806546 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haney Cara H CH Samuel Buck S BS Bush Jenifer J Ausubel Frederick M FM
Nature plants 20150511 6
Host-associated microbiomes influence host health. However, it is unclear whether genotypic variations in host organisms influence the microbiome in ways that have adaptive consequences for the host. Here, we show that wild accessions of <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> differ in their ability to associate with the root-associated bacterium <i>Pseudomonas fluorescens</i>, with consequences for plant fitness. In a screen of 196 naturally occurring <i>Arabidopsis</i> accessions we identified lines that ...[more]