Edda Francomano

Foliar pathogen and drought impose reproducible but community-dependent influence on the root microbiome

The paper investigates how foliar pathogens and drought affect root microbiomes across different microbial communities, finding that stress responses are reproducible but depend on the initial community composition.

Beneficial fungi are major drivers of root fungal microbiome assembly and network robustness

This study shows that soil disturbance reduces root fungal microbiome network robustness, with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi playing a key role in maintaining stability.