Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth
To identify the mechanisms underlying the beneficial microbiota effect on maize leaf growth, we performed a transcriptional analysis of individual leaf 3, leaf 4, and leaf 5 of B73 maize plants grown in low nutrient concentration axenically, inoculated with full synthetic community, and with three bacterial synthetic communities dropping out bacterial leaf markers for leaf 3, leaf 4, and leaf 5