Jeremy Sutherland

The paper investigates whether alfalfa can select beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria from a field population, finding weak selection for beneficial strains in two of three varieties.

This study investigates how host mutations affect rhizobial fitness by inoculating Medicago truncatula mutants with Sinorhizobium meliloti strains, revealing host-by-strain interactions and identifying key rhizobial genes involved in fitness responses.

The paper examines host selectivity and adaptive strain enrichment in legume-rhizobia symbiosis, finding host genetic variation affects strain selectivity and nodule morphology correlates with mutualism dynamics.