The surface area of the phyllosphere is approximately twice as great as the land surface area, and this environment provides a habitat for numerous microorganisms that colonize leaf surfaces (where ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The phyllosphere contains a diverse bacterial community that can be intimately associated with the host plant; however, few studies have ...

Despite enthusiasm for spraying probiotics on crops to ensure healthy microbiomes, little is known about what a healthy above-ground biome, or phyllosphere, looks like. Recent experiments show that ...

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