McCall B. Calvert

This study shows rhizobia adapt independently to soil and legume host environments, but soil conditions affect the abundance of high-quality nitrogen-fixing strains.

The paper identifies host-associated SNPs under balancing selection in a generalist plant parasite, suggesting adaptive diversity is maintained through heterogeneous host selection.

The paper examines thermal adaptation in rhizobia by analyzing genomic and growth data from Sinorhizobium strains in different temperature regions, finding that thermal constraints and gene flow shape their distribution.