🌱🧬 Plant breeding trials ignore the belowground microbiome. Microbes shape nutrient uptake, stress tolerance, and disease resistance. Excluding them biases heritability and GxE estimates.
Time to integrate microbiome data into breeding programs #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Plant breeding has advanced through genomics and predictive models, yet the plant-associated microbiome remains largely excluded from plant breeding trials. Microbial communities strongly influence nu...
