Natalie E. Ford

The paper examines how climate influences osmotic stress tolerance in Luteibacter populations, finding distinct genomic strategies in semi-arid and humid strains.

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

This study investigates how interactions between soil microbes and abiotic factors influence heterosis in maize, finding that microbial effects are context-dependent and abiotic factors may be a larger driver.

This study shows that plant-soil feedbacks from drought-adapted genotypes of Tripsacum dactyloides affect root traits and microbiomes under drought conditions.