Jie Hu

I focus on finding the microbial assembly patterns and deploying them to provide beneficial functions to plants. In current project, my research goal is to determine the impact of plant domestication on the taxonomic and functional diversification of the root microbiome, especially in identifying ‘missing’ plant microbes, their genomes and biosynthetic genes. Current research is focusing on identifying molecules produced by modern or wild plants that recruit beneficial ancestral microbiota.