author keywords: Synthetic communities; maize; root colonization; plant-microbe interactions; plant microbiome; SynCom

TL;DR: Comparing the reproducibility, stability, and colonization ability of freshly prepared versus frozen SynCom inocula shows that ready-to-use SynCom stocks provide comparable results to those of freshly constructed SynCom and thus allow for significant time savings when working with SynComs. (via Semantic Scholar)