Our view of microbes has recently undergone a paradigm shift (the so-called ‘microbiome revolution’). Previously seen as unwanted harbingers of disease, it is now widely recognised that microbes can be beneficial and that the millions of microbes living in and on the bodies of animals and plants (i.e., the microbiome) can have profound effects on host biology.

Allrounder: Dissecting the genetic basis of natural variation in root and shoot architecture as basis for breeding climate-resilient barley

Towards sustainable crop breeding: unravelling soil adaptation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana