Clara Victoria Tang

The paper introduces TriMic, a wheat root-associated bacterial culture collection and synthetic community to study wheat-microbe interactions, providing genomes and tools for mechanistic research.

ZeaMiC provides a culture collection of maize root-associated bacteria to study plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions.

The paper develops a synthetic bacterial community that colonizes wheat roots in soil and mimics field community assembly patterns, but shows genotype-specific differences.