Using five distinct tea cultivars, researchers combined metabolomic profiling, metagenomics, and machine learning to identify eight key microbial genes associated with leaf secondary compounds, ...

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 phyllosphere refers to all aboveground compartments of a plant, including stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits. It is the largest biological surface on Earth and an important habitat for microbial ...

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 ...

Plant communities and fungi inhabiting their phyllospheres change along precipitation gradients and often respond to changes in land use. Many studies have focused on the changes in foliar fungal ...

Rain-borne microbes can join the plant’s phyllosphere, protecting them from disease and stressors. Understanding their origin can improve plant health. New research from Virginia Tech reveals that ...