A. F. Bintarti

Stable, multigenerational transmission of the bean seed microbiome despite abiotic stress

This study tracks how drought or nutrient excess affects the transmission of bacterial communities in bean seeds across generations, finding stable transmission of 22 bacterial members regardless of parental treatment.

Endophytic microbiome variation at the level of a single plant seed

The paper develops a protocol to extract metagenomic DNA from individual seeds to assess microbiome variation at the seed level and finds higher variability at the plant level.

Abiotic treatment to common bean plants results in an altered seed microbiome.

This study investigates how abiotic treatments affect the seed microbiome of common bean plants, finding that water withholding and nutrient addition alter bacterial/archaeal communities but not fungal communities.