Scientists seek to establish community-driven metadata standards for microbiomes research
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 16:23
in Biology & Nature
"We are living through an explosion in the availability of microbiome data," according to JP Dundore-Arias, assistant professor of plant pathology at California State University, Monterey Bay. "In agricultural systems, the proliferation of research on plant and soil microbiomes has been coupled with excitement for the potential that microbiome data may have for the development of novel, sustainable, and effective crop management strategies."