Fungal endophytes (FE) are an important component of leaf microbial communities. They
usually live asymptomatically within leaf tissues; however, FE can provide additional …

Phylosymbiosis, the congruence of microbiome composition with host phylogeny, is a
valuable framework for investigating plant-microbe associations and their evolutionary …

Introduction The well-known eastern Asian (EA) and eastern North American (ENA) floristic
disjunction provides a unique system for biogeographic and evolutionary studies. Despite …

A phylogenetically diverse array of fungi live within healthy leaf tissue of dicotyledonous
plants. Many studies have examined these endophytes within a single plant species and/or …

Leaf traits of plants worldwide are classified according to the Leaf Economics Spectrum
(LES), which links leaf functional traits to evolutionary life history strategies. As a continuum …

To understand the distribution of the cultivable fungal community in plant tissues from nature
farming tomato plants, we sampled plants of seven different tomato cultivars and recovered …

Understanding the origins and maintenance of host specificity, or why horizontally‐acquired
symbionts associate with some hosts but not others, remains elusive. In this study, we …

Phylogenetic distance among host species represents a proxy for host traits that act as biotic
filters to shape host‐associated microbiome community structure. However, teasing apart …

Patterns and drivers of succession provide insight into the mechanisms that govern
community assembly, but remain poorly understood for microbial communities. We assess …

Introduction Understanding patterns of plant-microbe interactions across plant species and
populations is a critical yet poorly characterized aspect in the field of plant pathology …