Protist illustration (IMAGE)

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Protist illustration

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Protists are a type of microbe, and are slowly being recognized as key elements of the soil and rhizosphere microbiome. In this study, protist communities near plant roots were found to respond to the different developmental stages of switchgrass.

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(Credit: Javier A. Ceja Navarro)

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