Individual leaf microbiota tunes a genetic regulatory network to promote leaf growth
To examine whether plant microbiota composition contributes to maize leaves growth under two natural soils from Santiago island, Cabo Verde, Tarrafal and Sao Domingos, and in a soil from the UK, Sutton Bonington campus, we profiled bacterial communities established in plant roots , leaves and pot soils in wild type B73 and 3 inbred lines, CVSt, Matuba, and Zm523 using DNA amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene.