Phyllosphere or aerial surface of plants represents the globally largest and peculiar
microbial habitat that inhabits diverse and rich communities of bacteria, fungi, viruses …

Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

The surface of plant leaves, or the phyllosphere, harbors hyperdiverse microbial
communities. These communities mediate foliar functional traits, influence plant fitness, and …

Fungal communities associated with plants and soil influence plant fitness and ecosystem
functioning. They are frequently studied by metabarcoding approaches targeting the …

Next generation metabarcoding is becoming an indispensable tool in fungal community
ecology. Here we tested Illumina metabarcoding, a method that generates shorter reads but …

Background The increasing awareness of the role of phyllosphere microbial communities in
plant health calls for a greater understanding of their structure and dynamics in natural …

More than 2 000 yeast strains isolated from 1 200 samples mostly collected from Tibet and
Yunnan provinces in China were identified as 462 species according to the internal …

The above-ground surfaces of plants (the phyllosphere) harbour a diverse variety of
microorganisms, and this phyllosphere microbiome interacts with the host plant affecting its …

The aerial surface of plants, known as the phyllosphere, represents a widespread and
diverse habitat for microbes, but the fungal communities colonizing the surface of leaves are …

The phyllosphere mycobiome in cereals is an important determinant of crop health.
However, an understanding of the factors shaping this community is lacking. Fungal diversity …