Publications by authors named "Tessa E Reid"
This article comments on: 2024. Local signal from T22 induces host transcriptome and endophytic microbiome leading to growth promotion in sorghum. Journal of Experimental Botany , https://doi.
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- The study examines how the evolution of wheat and the use of chemical fertilizers affect the beneficial bacteria that live on its roots.
- It found that both the type of soil and the addition of fertilizers significantly influence the composition of these bacteria, with genetic changes in wheat also playing a role.
- The research suggests that using fertilizers decreases the presence of helpful bacteria in modern wheat, which might affect plant growth and could inform future breeding programs aimed at improving crop yields.
The profound negative effect of inorganic chemical fertilizer application on rhizobacterial diversity has been well documented using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and predictive metagenomics. We aimed to measure the function and relative abundance of readily culturable putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial (PGPR) isolates from wheat root soil samples under contrasting inorganic fertilization regimes. We hypothesized that putative PGPR abundance will be reduced in fertilized relative to unfertilized samples.
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