Paolina Garbeva

The paper examines how drought affects the total and active microbiome in wheat roots, finding greater sensitivity in the active microbiome and VOC emissions in drought-sensitive wheat.

This study shows that Pseudomonas VOCs enhance plant growth under drought by modulating root transcriptomes and microbiomes.

SynCom101 is a web-based platform that enables standardized, hypothesis-driven design of synthetic microbial communities using genomic and phenotypic data.

This study reconstructs microbial consortia responsible for disease suppression in plants by combining dilution-to-extinction experiments with genome-resolved synthetic ecology.

The paper uses amplicon sequencing of NRPS genes and 16S rRNA to study microbial community structure and function in wheat root rhizoplane under drought stress, finding that drought affects siderophore composition and enriches NRPS genes linked to colonization.