Teresa Mayer

Deterministic colonization arises early during the transition of soil bacteria to the phyllosphere and is shaped by plant-microbe interactions.

This study investigates how soil bacteria transition to the phyllosphere, finding that deterministic processes shape some taxa while stochastic processes dominate overall, influenced by plant-microbe interactions.

Immunity and bacterial recruitment in plant leaves are parallel processes that together shape sensitivity to temperature stress

This study compares two Arabidopsis genotypes to show how immunity and bacterial recruitment interact to influence heat stress tolerance.