Artificial Selection on Microbiomes To Breed Microbiomes That Confer Salt Tolerance to Plants

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Mueller, Ulrich G; Juenger, Thomas E; Kardish, Melissa R; Carlson, Alexis L; Burns, Kathleen M; ... Show more
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Abstract
<jats:p>We developed an experimental protocol that improves earlier methods of artificial selection on microbiomes and then tested the efficacy of our protocol to breed root-associated bacterial microbiomes that confer salt tolerance to a plant. Salt stress limits growth and seed production of crop plants, and artificially selected microbiomes conferring salt tolerance may ultimately help improve agricultural productivity.</jats:p>
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2021
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148539
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Journal
mSystems
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American Society for Microbiology
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Mueller, Ulrich G, Juenger, Thomas E, Kardish, Melissa R, Carlson, Alexis L, Burns, Kathleen M et al. 2021. "Artificial Selection on Microbiomes To Breed Microbiomes That Confer Salt Tolerance to Plants." mSystems, 6 (6).
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