Maggie R. Wagner
Studies how crops and their wild relatives recruit and respond to specific soil microbiomes, including microbial legacies of drought that buffer plants from water stress.
The record
- Standing
- active practice
- Based
- University of Kansas · United States
- Focus area
- Evolutionary Genomics
- Works on
- plant-microbiome genetics, drought legacy, maize, wild relatives, precipitation gradient.
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The work
Plant evolutionary ecologist at the University of Kansas (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Kansas Biological Survey). Her lab uses Kansas’s east-west precipitation gradient to show that soil microbiota with a legacy of chronic water limitation can mitigate acute drought for native grasses but not for domesticated maize, and studies heterosis and disease resistance in maize microbiomes. NSF-funded collaborator with the University of Nottingham.
Where to read them
- Maggie R. Wagner — lab or personal site
- Ginnan et al. (2025) Persistent legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate plant adaptive responses to drought
- Swift et al. (2024) drought stress homogenizes maize growth responses to natural soil microbiomes, Plant and Soil
- Wagner et al. (2020) heterosis of leaf and rhizosphere microbiomes in maize
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