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IMAGE: On the left PhD candidate Jin Xu in a citrus orchard; on the right Yunzeng Zhang, who recently became a professor at Yangzhou University in China. In the middle is. view more
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Due to their complexity and microscopic scale, plant-microbe interactions can be quite elusive. Each researcher focuses on a piece of the interaction, and it is hard to find all the pieces let alone assemble them into a comprehensive map to find the hidden treasures within the plant microbiome. This is the purpose of review, to take all the pieces from all the different sources and put them together into something comprehensive that can guide researchers to hidden clues and new associations that unlock the secrets of a system. Like any good treasure map, there are still gaps in the knowledge and the searcher must be clever enough to fill in those gaps to find the X . Without a map, there is only aimless wandering, but with a map, there is hope of finding the hi