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 ...

Stems, leaves, flowers and fruits make up the biggest chunk of potential living space for microbes in the environment, but ecologists still don't know a lot about how the microorganisms that reside ...

In a new study, published in the journal Nature, Michigan State University scientists show how plant genes select which microbes get to live inside their leaves in order to stay healthy. This is the ...

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

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) researcher Ashley Shade asks a simple question, but it’s one well worth investigation. The aboveground part of plants where microbes reside, or the ...

Powdery mildew is one of the most destructive fungal diseases affecting black currants, infecting leaves, stems, and young fruits while reducing yield and fruit quality. Chemical pesticides provide ...

Your crop’s first line of defense lives on the leaf. PhycoTerra® FX feeds up to 10 million microbes/cm² with microalgae-powered nutrition. Feeding the beneficial native microbes in your phyllosphere ...

Scientists have focused on understanding more about the plant regions above the soil where these microbes can live, called the 'phyllosphere.' Stems, leaves, flowers and fruits make up the biggest ...