Carolien FrankenView profile
Researcher
Carolien Franken is a Researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Wageningen University & Research. Her work focuses on plant-microbe interactions, root development, and stress resilience mechanisms. Key research areas: Plant microbiomes, salt stress adaptation, root architecture evolution Collaborations with Ton Bisseling, Ronald Geurts, and international teams Recent publications reveal trends in: Microbiome engineering for agricultural resilience Ancestral root formation mechanisms across seed plants Comparative analysis of rhizosphere effects She has co-authored 11 research outputs and contributed to two genomic datasets, including Non-diazotrophic Bradyrhizobium spp. genome sequencing (2018) and Rhizosphere microbiome of Arabidopsis and other plants (2020).