Grape plant bacteria might help mitigate smoke taint in wine by breaking down chemicals that evoke an ashy taste.

1 The Mina & Everard Goodman, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 2 School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. The determination of live ...

A new article led by Jacob Heil (Ph.D. candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior) and supervised by Leonora Bittleston (Biological Sciences) describes for the first time the fungal microbiome of ...

Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and waters right now. North Woods Naturalist is supported in part by funding ...

The aboveground parts of terrestrial plants, collectively called the phyllosphere, have a key role in the global balance of atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen. The phyllosphere represents one of ...

State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan University, China; School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, China; ...

Variation on bacterial communities living in the phyllosphere as epiphytes and endophytes has been attributed to plant host effects. However, there is contradictory or inconclusive evidence regarding ...

† Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, China § State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for ...

I am an evolutionary biologist interested in how plants adapted to radically different environmental conditions upon colonization of new ecosystems. I am especially interested in the genomic changes ...