NEBRASKA: New NSF EPSCoR-funded Center for Root and Rhizobiome Innovation publication

Nebraska NSF EPSCoR Center for Root and Rhizobiome Innovation team members collaborated for a newly accepted paper, “Association analyses of host genetics, root-colonizing microbes, and plant phenotypes under different nitrogen conditions in maize,” published in eLife. Writes one of the co-authors, Jinliang Yang of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “In this study, we used population genetics methods to 1) identify beneficial microbes under selection by the plant host; 2) detect plant loci associated with the abundance of microbes; 3) find the correlation of these microbes with plant phenotypes.”