The Plant Microbiome

Studying Seed Microbiomes.- Sampling Microbiomes Associated with Different Plant Compartments.- Sampling of Bacteria Associated with Plant Vascular Tissues.- Sampling of Plant Material to Study Endophytes in Small, Large and Woody Plants.- Preparation of Samples for Characterization of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.- Culture-based Methods for Studying the Bacterial Root Microbiome of Wheat.- Fast Screening of Bacteria for Plant Growth Promoting Traits.- Protists in the Plant Microbiome - An Untapped Field Of Research.- Plant-associated Fungi: Methods for Taxonomy, Diversity, and Bioactive Secondary Metabolite Bioprospecting.- Extraction and Purification of DNA from Wood at Various Stages of Decay for Metabarcoding of Wood-Associated Fungi.- Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) Clamps to Reduce Co-Amplification of Plant DNA during PCR Amplification of 16S rRNA Genes from Endophytic Bacteria.- Quantification of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacterial Abundances in Environmental Samples by quantitative-PCR.- Removing Host-derived DNA Sequences from Microbial Metagenomes via Mapping to Reference Genomes.- Inference and Analysis of SPIEC-EASI Microbiome Networks.- Gene Knockout of Beneficial Plant-associated Bacillus spp. using the CRISPR-Cas9 Double Plasmid System.- Sample Preparation for Culture-Independent Profiling and Isolation of Phyllosphere Bacteria to Identify Potential Biopesticides.- Soil-borne Legacies of Disease in Arabidopsis thaliana.- Bioactive Streptomycetes from Isolation to Applications: A Tasmanian Potato Farm Example.- Methods to Identify Soil Microbial Bioindicators of Sustainable Management of Bioenergy Crops.- Functional Soil Biological Measurements to Support Healthy Soils.- A Bait-Trap Assay to Characterise Soil Microbes that Exhibit Chemotaxis to Root Exudates.- Methods for Root Exudate Collection and Analysis.- Collection of Sterile Root Exudates from Foliar Pathogen-Inoculated Plants.