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Project Type: Seed Project

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Rare insights: Unearthing the microbiome context governing host-microbial symbioses in the periodical cicada

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Crimson and clover, over and over: Methylobacterium and trifolium hybridum

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Carbon substrate use of rhizobia evolved under long-term nitrogen amendments

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Investigating mutualism co-evolution using a novel alga-N-fixing bacterium model

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Characterization of competition and cooperative dynamics among wild plasmids isolated from E. coli in a natural co-housed porcine population

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Investigating the dynamics of multiple bumble bee symbioses in agriculturally situated pollinator habitat

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Microbiome diversity in nodules across soybean cultivars and soil treatments with varied nitrogen histories

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Multipartite fungal symbiosis: Investigating the impacts of arbuscular mycorrhizal and fungal leaf endophyte symbiosis on prairie plant growth and metabolites

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Fungicide-mediated alteration of foliar endophytic and soil microbial communities and its implications on prairie plant host phenotypes

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Soybean domestication and transition from a forage legume to oilseed: Do domestication effects change reliance on microbial communities?

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2022049. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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