Jennifer A. Lau

The paper investigates how cyanogenic defense traits in clover affect investment in rhizobia and rhizobium evolution, finding increased nodule size but no change in rhizobium quality.

This study shows that drought stress drives rapid evolution in Rhizobium bacteria, enhancing their benefits to legume hosts under drought conditions.

This study shows negative frequency-dependent selection maintains genetic variation in legume-rhizobium mutualisms by favoring high-quality strains when rare.

The study tests if microbial communities can help or harm maize plants during drought in agricultural soils, finding that mal-acclimation is common.

The paper examines how ecological and evolutionary processes interact to cause mutualism breakdown between legumes and rhizobia over 33 years of nitrogen fertilization.

The paper analyzes plasmid transmission dynamics in Rhizobium leguminosarum, finding variation in plasmid types and their association with partner quality decline due to nitrogen fertilization.

The paper shows that microbial responses to stress reduce its selective impact on plants and alter selection even after stress ends.