Phylogenetically diverse endophytic bacteria from desert plants induce transcriptional changes of tissue-specific ion transporters and salinity stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

The authors would like to thank Cristina Andres-Barrao for useful discussions on bacterial classification and phylogenetic tree construction. We also thank all members of The Hirt Lab, CDA management team and the greenhouse and bioscience core labs in KAUST for their technical assistance. The work was funded by KAUST baseline research projects of H.H. The authors declare that the research was conducted in absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.