Corn’s wild ancestors may have passed down beneficial bacterial species through seeds
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Date
2013-02-27
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Johnston-Monje, D.
Raizada, M.N.
Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship
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Abstract
Although seed bacterial communities were most similar among closely related corn and teosinte varieties, a core group of seed endophytes from the ancestral teosintes was preserved during the domestication process. Most seed endophytes helped plants obtain nutrients or encouraged growth, and some could travel outside the seed.
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This summary is a project of the Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship (ICES) at the University of Guelph, with project partners: the Catalyst Centre, SPARK Program at the University of Guelph, and Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University. This project is part of the Pan-Canadian Research Impact Network. http://csahs.uoguelph.ca/pps/Clear_Research
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corn, maize, endophyte, bacteria, fungi, symbiosis, seed, plant growth, plant nutrition