Zaki Saati-Santamaría

📢 Si eres joven investigador en interacciones beneficiosas planta-microorganismo, te recordamos que el envío de comunicaciones para asistir al XX Congreso de la SEFIN y III BeMiPlant está abierto y se pueden solicitar bolsas de viaje hasta el 31 de marzo 🌱🧫🔬 #SEFIN2026
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How do evolutionary forces shape bacterial adaptation to the plant environment? 🌱🦠

Curious? Read our new review in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Reviews.

#PlantMicrobiome #MicrobialEvolution #HostMicrobeInteractions #Rhizosphere #Microbiome

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Evolutionary mechanisms underlying bacterial adaptation to the plant environment Abstract. Plants and bacteria have coevolved over hundreds of millions of years, forming complex associations ranging from mutualism to pathogenicity that

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying bacterial adaptation to the plant environment

in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Reviews by @zakisaati.bsky.social et al

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Transcriptome-guided discovery of novel plant-associated genes in a rhizosphere Pseudomonas - Microbiome Background Microorganisms play important ecological roles during interactions with plants, with some strains promoting plant performance. However, the molecular basis of bacterial adaptation to the pl...

🌱🔬 Check out our new paper in Microbiome! We used transcriptomics, comparative genomics, and metagenomics to find bacterial genes important for root adaptation, validating one that affects root growth and plant promotion. #Microbiome #Rhizosphere
doi.org/10.1186/s401...
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New preprint!
Soils are alive — yet we still know little about how farming reshapes them.
Here we analyzed 1,921 soil microbiomes from 33 countries to uncover how agriculture—especially pesticides and fertilizers—is transforming microbial life globally. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

What happens to microbial genomic evolution in highly stable, closed ecosystems? In this preprint, authors look at 111 MAGs from a Romanian cave isolated from external influences for 5.5My(!) and see more pseudogenisation of core genes & limited HGT. Unsurprising?
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...