Irene Sanz-Puente

The Wheat Seed Microbiome as a Model for Understanding the Transmission of Beneficial Plant-Associated Bacteria.

Beneficial plant-microbe interactions are fundamental to plant nutrition, growth, stress tolerance and disease resistance. However, because microorganisms are not encoded by the plant genome, the mechanisms by which microbial associations persist across generations remain unresolved. In this review, we examine the emer...