Simona Radutoiu

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.

The paper identifies two amino acid residues in NFR1 that determine signalling specificity between immune and symbiotic responses in legume root cells.

SyFi improves the accuracy of SynCom member identification by using genomic and amplicon-based fingerprints, enhancing resolution for closely related isolates.

The paper identifies circRNAs in Lotus japonicus under different nutrient and symbiotic conditions and suggests their role in regulating symbiosis through miRNA sponging.

The paper shows that the LYR4 intracellular domain functions as a signaling scaffold in chitin-triggered immunity, independent of its phosphorylation activity.

This paper introduces SparCEV and SparXCC to estimate cross-correlations between microbiome OTUs and external variables, showing they outperform naive transformations in certain scenarios.

The paper evaluates metagenomic software tools using realistic datasets, highlighting improvements in assembly and taxon profiling while identifying remaining challenges in virus/archaea detection and reproducibility.