What is it about?
To reveal hidden functions of plant-associated bacteria and microbiomes, I have worked on genomic diversity ann dynamics in rhizobia and crop-associated bacterial communities in terms of biogeochemical aspects including nitrogen fixation and methane oxidation.
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Why is it important?
Microbial genomics and omics could facilitate our deep understandings for the hidden functions of plant-associated bacteria and microbiomes. So, it is important to deeply reveal the genome structures of respective strains of plant-associated bacteria towards dynamic roles on plant-associated microbes.
Perspectives
Recently, new experimental approaches were proposed to reveal the community-level functions of plant microbiomes and their driving forces: (i) Synthetic microbial communities in gnotobiotic systems to address fundamental principles of plant microbiomes; (ii) Identification of “core (or hub) microbes” by network analysis of amplicon sequencing. Integration of these new approaches with conventional knowledge as described above could reveal the driving force and new functions of plant microbiomes. A fascinating experiment is to test how “core microbe” inoculation changes the community structure of plant microbiome, which is a similar approach to study on elementary particle in physics.
Professor Kiwamu Minamisawa
Tohoku Unversity
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This page is a summary of: Complete Genome Sequence of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens USDA 122, a Nitrogen-Fixing Soybean Symbiont, Genome Announcements, March 2017, ASM Journals,
DOI: 10.1128/genomea.01743-16.
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