Maintaining relationships, even great ones, can be challenging. Some plants juggle multiple relationships ALL of the time. Think of an organism that does something helpful for a plant. Bees, hummingbirds, and other pollinators may come to mind. But plants also recruit toucans, black bears, and other seed dispersers as well as predatory insects such as ants and wasps for defense. And then there are microbes. My goal for this research paper was to show how one microbe in partic