Seedling Microbiome Responds to Watering

A new paper from our climate change experiment is just out! It shows that establishing limber pine seedlings host a different microbiome in their shoot and root tissues than that found in mature trees. It also shows an increased abundance of bacterial taxa thought to have anti-fungal properties in their roots, particularly when we watered the seedlings. Dana Carper, a PhD candidate in collaborator Carolin Frank’s lab led the study.