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Summary Microbial communities can rapidly respond to stress, meaning plants may encounter altered soil microbial communities in stressful environments. These altered microbial communities may then affect natural selection on plants. Because stress can cause lasting changes to microbial communities, microbes may also cause legacy effects on plant selection that persist even after the stress ceases.To explore how microbial responses to stress and persistent microbial legacy effects of stress affect natural selection, we grewChamaecrista fasciculataplants in stressful (salt, herbicide, or herbivory) or nonstressful conditions with microbes that had experienced each of these environments in the previous generation.Microbial community responses to stress generally counteracted the effects of stress itself on plant selection, thereby weakening the strength of stress as a selective agent. Microbial legacy effects of stress altered plant selection in nonstressful environments, suggesting that stress‐induced changes to microbes may continue to affect selection after stress is lifted.These results suggest that soil microbes may play a cryptic role in plant adaptation to stress, potentially reducing the strength of stress as a selective agent and altering the evolutionary trajectory of plant populations.
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Thermo-mechanical characterization and stress engineering of Lipon solid electrolyte
A high temperature multibeam-optical-stress sensor (HTMOSS) was used to characterize the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and yield stress of 1-micron thick Lipon films.
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- PAR ID:
- 10492901
- Publisher / Repository:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 7
- ISSN:
- 2050-7488
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 3943 to 3953
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA06386K
