Kerstin Unger

The paper shows that plant glucosinolates select for bacterial communities with redundant and cooperative metabolic functions in wild Arabidopsis leaves.

The paper shows that Pseudomonas uses SaxA to detoxify plant isothiocyanates, enabling a commensal to thrive and suppress Pseudomonas virulence.

This study shows that pathogen virulence factors can indirectly benefit commensals through nutrient competition, limiting pathogen growth in plant leaves.

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.

The paper shows that structural variations in glucosinolates affect bacterial community recruitment in Arabidopsis thaliana, with allyl-GLS enriching Burkholderiales bacteria.