bioRxiv: Microbial biomass & disease in wild plants
The relationship between microbial biomass and disease in the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere
Karasov et al., bioRxiv 828814, posted November 3, 2019.
A central goal in microbiome research is to learn what distinguishes a healthy from a dysbiotic microbial community. … Read the rest
bioRxiv: Integrated sequencing approaches for microbiome analyses
Combining whole genome shotgun sequencing and rDNA amplicon analyses to improve detection of microbe-microbe interaction networks in plant leaves
Regalado, Lundberg et al., bioRxiv 823492, posted October 30, 2019.
Microorganisms from all domains of life establish associations with plants. … Read the rest
bioRxiv: GWAS without complete genomes
Finding genetic variants in plants without complete genomes
Voichek, Y., & Weigel, D., bioRxiv 818096, posted October 25, 2019.
Structural variants and presence/absence polymorphisms are common in plant genomes, yet they are routinely overlooked in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). … Read the rest