Zuzana Blahovska

The paper investigates how Arabidopsis, Barley, and Lotus plants recruit specific bacteria from synthetic communities, finding that functional capacities drive microbiota assembly.

The paper identifies regulatory non-coding RNAs, including miRNAs, lncRNAs, and circRNAs, involved in the symbiosis between Lotus japonicus and Mesorhizobium loti.

This study shows that the Common Symbiosis Signalling Pathway (CSSP) regulates root microbiome assembly in a host-specific manner across two plant species, with distinct taxonomic outcomes linked to host metabolic differences.

The paper reports the assembly of 152 high-quality bacterial genomes from the Lotus japonicus root commensal collection using long-read sequencing.