Successive passaging of a plant-associated microbiome reveals robust habitat and host genotype-dependent selection
N. M. Morella, F. C.-H. Weng, P. M. Joubert, C. J. E. Metcalf, S. Lindow, B. Koskella
The paper shows that successive passaging of a tomato phyllosphere microbiome can select for a stable, host genotype-dependent community that resists invasion by the original community.
bioRxiv · May 5, 2019Microbiology