The latest issue of Phytobiomes Journal, Volume 5 No. 2, has been released. Included in the issue are two papers with Northen Lab researchers, focusing on aspects of the root microbiome. Volume 5 No. 1 also includes an editorial led by a NL member for the Focus Issue on Phytobiomes […]
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Phosphate Availability Modulates Root Exudate Composition and Rhizosphere Microbial Community in a Teosinte and a Modern Maize Cultivar Crop domestication, while focused on above ground traits, has had unintended impacts on below ground plant characteristics. How these changes have influenced rhizosphere interactions remains poorly understood. We investigated the impacts of […]
A review paper was recently published in RSC Chemical Biology by researchers at the Northen Lab. Dr. Noel Ha and 4 other scientists reviewed recent microfluidic approaches that have been successfully integrated with mass spectrometry analysis for high-throughput bioassays to improve throughput, sensitivity, and specificity. High-throughput screening technologies are widely […]
Two papers were recently published by researchers at the Northen Lab exploring bond breakage in phenolic compounds and the detection of glycosyl hydrolase and lignin modifying enzymes. Dr. Kai Deng, who is an author on both papers, shared some figures and highlights from these publications. Experimental and theoretical insights into […]
A new paper in Nature Communications (with two authors from the Northen Lab, Trent Northen and Suzanne Kosina) has revealed that soil microbes are able to break down polyphenols, a type of compound found in foods such as chocolate, red wine, fruits, and vegetables. Like in the human gut, degradation […]
In a collaboration with the Yoshikuni lab at JGI and the Dangl lab at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Lauren Jabusch of the Northen Lab demonstrated imaging of 9 different colors of fluorescent bacteria within a single EcoFAB. This work is part of the paper “CRAGE-Duet Facilitates Modular Assembly […]
We have a new publication with scientists at the University of California Davis and the University of Texas at Austin: “Bioactive Diterpenoids Impact the Composition of the Root-Associated Microbiome in Maize (Zea mays).” Metabolomics analysis identified dolabralexin diterpenoids as metabolites that influence the rhizosphere and bacterial communities associated with maize. […]
The importance of understanding microbe-plant interactions is becoming ever more important with the growing need for more sustainable agriculture and for understanding global nutrient cycling. Lab and field studies have historically focused on simple lab consortia or complex natural microbiomes. In these approaches, there exists numerous challenges, specifically in the […]
Since the development of nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry (NIMS), we have been working to find a way of producing these surfaces without the use of electrochemical HF etching, which poses both major safety implications and greatly limits the wide-spread implementation of NIMS. Here, we show that inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactive […]
Here we highlight current high-throughput MS-based platforms and their potential application in metabolomics. Although current MS platforms can reach throughputs up to 0.5 seconds per sample, the metabolite coverage of these platforms are low compared to low-throughput, separation-based MS methods. High-throughput comes at a cost, as it’s a trade-off between sample throughput […]