Work package 1: We will study the evolution of plant-recruited root microbiomes across the plant kingdom. With precision-based methods, we will analyse the root microbiome dynamics and plant response and performance of 100 wild and cultivated plant species - related to the five most important food crop families – grown under four major types of stress: nutrient deficiency, drought, pathogen infection and herbivory.
Work package 2: In collaboration with our international partners, we will investigate how microbiome recruitment and functionality change when plants are grown in soils at their centres of origin. Here, we take a selection of wild and domesticated plant species back to their origin, and determine how the taxonomy and functionality of the root microbiome changes under conditions where plants are exposed to different stresses.
WP3 Digging deep: Mechanisms and plasticity of stress-induced microbiome recruitment
Digging deeper: Microbiome functions facilitating plant stress resilience
Simone Borgoni, Identifying personalized epigenetic endocrine resistance based on pathway screening
