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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Microbe-dependent heterosis in maize.

Maggie R Wagner, Clara Tang, Fernanda Salvato, Kayla M Clouse, Alexandria Bartlett, Simina Vintila, Laura Phillips, Shannon Sermons, Mark Hoffmann, Peter J Balint-Kurti and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Maggie R WagnerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; maggie.r.wagner@ku.edu mkleine@ncsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6924-7226
Clara TangDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0003-4181-8629
Fernanda SalvatoDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0003-1650-5399
Kayla M ClouseDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.ORCID 0000-0003-0047-8920
Alexandria BartlettDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0003-4350-0542
Simina VintilaDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0003-0018-0016
Laura PhillipsDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.
Shannon SermonsDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0003-1050-2517
Mark HoffmannDepartment of Horticulture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0001-9980-3337
Peter J Balint-KurtiDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.ORCID 0000-0002-3916-194X
Manuel KleinerDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695; maggie.r.wagner@ku.edu mkleine@ncsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6904-0287

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hybrids account for nearly all commercially planted varieties of maize and many other crop plants because crosses between inbred lines of these species produce first-generation [F

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Hybrid VigorSoil MicrobiologyBacteriaFungiSeedlingsZea maysendophyteshybrid vigormaizemicrobiomerhizosphere

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PMID34285069
PMCPMC8325155

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