Rita L. Grunberg

Dec 23, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Elizabeth Green |Rita L. Grunberg |Charles Mitchell

AbstractA pathogen arriving on a host typically encounters a diverse community of microbes that can shape priority effects, other within-host interactions, and infection outcomes. In plants, environmental nutrients can drive tradeoffs between host growth and defense and can mediate interactions between coinfecting pathogens. Nutrients may thus alter the outcome of pathogen priority effects for the host, but this possibility has received little experimental investigation.