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Who's who in the plant root microbiome?

Metagenomics reveals the identities of the microorganisms that make up the endophytic and rhizosphere microbiomes of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Figure 1: Separating out root-associated microbiomes for metagenomic analyses.

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Hirsch, P., Mauchline, T. Who's who in the plant root microbiome?. Nat Biotechnol 30, 961–962 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2387

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