{"id":1470,"date":"2026-07-30T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:18:01","slug":"you-can-evolve-rhizobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/you-can-evolve-rhizobia\/","title":{"rendered":"You can evolve rhizobia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes. Yes you can!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out these awesome preprints:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca<\/a> has one up showing negative frequency-dependence on rhizobium partner quality<\/a> (!) – is that how variation is maintained?!?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kevin<\/a> shows that rhizobia locally adapt to drought<\/a>, which in turn helps plants (!). WHAT?! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes. Yes you can! Check out these awesome preprints: Rebecca has one up showing negative frequency-dependence on rhizobium partner quality (!) – is that how variation is maintained?!?! Kevin shows that rhizobia locally adapt to drought, which in turn helps …<\/p>\n

You can evolve rhizobia?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.life.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}