A research team provides a detailed picture of how the leaf surface microbiome of tea plants responds to infection, ...
Using five distinct tea cultivars, researchers combined metabolomic profiling, metagenomics, and machine learning to identify eight key microbial genes associated with leaf secondary compounds, ...
ABSTRACT: Soil DNA studies often present a misleading view of microbial communities by failing to distinguish between live and dead bacterial cells. There is a critical gap in research on how the ...
Ants have efficient and well-studied social immunity mechanisms, which prevent the colony contamination. Little is known about how workers keep their outside territory clear of diseases. We ...
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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; ...
Plants and crop stands are considered holobionts, colonized by both autotrophic and by non-phototrophic heterotrophic microbiota. The dilemma in the exisiting body of studies is that the focus is ...
† 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 ...
Diversity of Pink-Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs (PPFMs) in phyllosphere of cotton, maize and sunflower was determined based on differential carbon-substrate utilization profile and Random ...