Bacterial communities that colonise plant roots reflect the plant's species affiliation and location preferences
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
Plants sustain bacterial communities in their roots that are beneficial to them. Klaus Schläppi and Paul Schulze-Lefert from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne have shown that these communities are surprisingly robust and essentially consist of a few families of bacteria. Their composition depends on the plant's family affiliation and living environments.