The aboveground parts of terrestrial plants are colonized by a variety of microbes that
collectively constitute the phyllosphere microbiota. Decades of pioneering work using …

Nectar, the main floral reward for pollinators, varies greatly in composition and
concentration. The assumption that nectar quality is equivalent to its sugar (energy) …

Flowers at times host abundant and specialized communities of bacteria and fungi that
influence floral phenotypes and interactions with pollinators. Ecological processes drive …

Floral nectar is prone to colonization by nectar-adapted yeasts and bacteria via air-, rain-,
and animal-mediated dispersal. Upon colonization, microbes can modify nectar chemical …

Priority effects, where arrival order and initial relative abundance modulate local species
interactions, can exert taxonomic, functional, and evolutionary influences on ecological …

Abstract The One Health concept proposes that the health of humans, animals, and the
environment are interconnected. Agricultural production is a critical component of One …

An emerging focus of research at the intersection of botany, zoology, and microbiology is the
study of floral nectar as a microbial habitat, referred to as the nectar microbiome, which can …

In recent years, our understanding of the complex chemistry of floral nectar and its
ecological implications for plant-pollinator relationships has certainly increased. Nectar is no …

Plant–microbe associations are ubiquitous, but parsing contributions of dispersal, host
filtering, competition and temperature on microbial community composition is challenging …

The rhizosphere and phyllosphere are the below-and above-ground microbial ecosystems
of plants. Interactions between the rhizosphere and phyllosphere shape the plant …