Genetic relatedness can alter the strength of plant-soil interactions.
Kelly M ClarkMarci J GallagherThomas CanamScott J MeinersPublished in: American journal of botany (2024)
Our data argue that genetic relatedness to the plant from which the soil microbial inoculum was obtained may cause differential impacts on establishing seedlings, encouraging the regeneration of non-kin adjacent to established clones. Such intraspecific variation represents a potentially important source of heterogeneity in plant-soil microbe interactions with implications for maintaining population genetic diversity.