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Recent publications

Burrill, H. M., Wang, G., & Bever, J. D. (2023). Rapid differentiation of soil and root microbiomes in response to plant composition and biodiversity in the field. ISME Communications, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00237-5

Delaney, S., & von Wettberg, E. J. B. (2023). Toward the next angiosperm revolution: Agroecological food production as a driver for biological diversity. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1), 00134. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00134

Haggerty K, von Wettberg EJ. Kernza: An Ecological Grain Crop. Maine Organic Farming and Gardening Association Member magazine. Summer 2024. https://www.mofga.org/resources/grain/kernza-perennial-wheat/

Koziol, Liz, & D. Bever, J.D.  (2023). Crop productivity boosters: Native mycorrhizal fungi Inoculation benefits tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and pepper (Capsicum annuum) varieties in organically farmed soils.  Microorganisms.  11: 8. 2012. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37630572/

Krug, A. S., B. M. Drummond, E., Van Tassel, D. L., and Warschefsky, E. J. (2023). The next era of crop domestication starts now. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(14), e2205769120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205769120

Magnoli, S. and Beaver, J.D. (2023). Plant productivity response to inter- and intra-symbiont diversity: mechanisms, manifestations, and  meta-analyses.  Ecology Letters.  10.1111/ele.14274. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14274

Mastreta A, Tobin D, Bellon M, von Wettberg EJ, Cibrian A., Wegier A, Monroy-Sais A, Galvez-Reyes N, Ruiz-Arocho J, Chen YF. (2024). Human management of ongoing evolutionary processes in agroecosystems, Plants People Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10521

McKenna, T.P., Koziol, L., Crain, J., Crews, T.E., Sikes, B.A., DeHaan, L.R., Bever, J.D. (2024). Selection for agronomic traits in intermediate wheatgrass increases responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Plants People Planet. http://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10600

Podzikowski, L. Y., Duell, E. B., Burrill, H. M., & Bever, J. D. (2024). Home-field advantage, N-priming and precipitation independently govern litter decomposition in a plant diversity manipulation. Functional Ecology, 00:1-12, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14515

Podzikowski, L. Y., Heffernan, M. M., & Bever, J. D. (2023). Plant diversity and grasses increase root biomass in a rainfall and grassland diversity manipulation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1-11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1259809

Udawatta, R., Gurmessa, B., Gonzalez, M., Mendis, S., & Lovell, S. (2024). Short‐term effects of Kernza and alfalfa on microbial communities. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20509

Wang, G., Burrill, H. M., Podzikowski, L. Y., Eppinga, M. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, J., Schultz, P. A., & Bever, J. D. (2023). Dilution of specialist pathogens drives productivity benefits from diversity in plant mixtures. Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44253-4