Sarah Lebeis studies the assembly and function of plant microbiomes. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how the paper "Functional Overlap of the Arabidopsis Leaf and Root Microbiota" (Y. Bai, D. B. Müller, G. Srinivas, R. Garrido-Oter, et al., Nature 528:364-369, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16192) provided a roadmap for how large culture collections composed of well-characterized bacterial isolates provide essential resources to test hypotheses concerning microbial communities.

中文翻译：

---

影响力领域：透过钥匙孔进入看不见的世界。

Sarah Lebeis研究植物微生物组的装配和功能。在这篇影响力领域的文章中，她回顾了论文“拟南芥叶片和根微生物群的功能重叠”（Y. Bai，DBMüller，G。Srinivas，R。Garrido-Oter等，Nature 528：364） -369，2015，https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16192）提供了路线图，说明如何将由特征明确的细菌分离物组成的大型培养物收集物提供必要的资源，以测试有关微生物群落的假设。