Pooja Mehta

Pooja Mehta

pmehta@ice.mpg.de

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Department of Molecular Ecology

Recruitment and maintenance of the Nicotiana attenuata root microbiome

The plant microbiome plays an important role in the protection of plants from various ecological hardships. Nicotiana attenuata uses its microbiome to defend itself against root rot and wilt diseases. It also improves its own phenotype through energy cons

PhD start: 04/15/2019

Supervisors

Prof. Ian Baldwin

Prof. Ian Baldwin

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Department of Molecular Ecology

Prof. Dr. Erika Kothe

Prof. Dr. Erika Kothe

Friedrich Schiller University

Institute of Microbiology - Microbial Communication