"Have you ever wondered about life on a leaf?" Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) researcher Ashley Shade asks a simple question, but it’s one well worth investigation. The aboveground part ...
Microbiomes play a key role for plant health and could make agriculture more sustainable -- but the principles behind the assembly of their communities have remained largely unknown. Researchers have ...
The research shows that while fungal diversity on infected leaves drops sharply, beneficial bacteria remain stable, and some nonpathogenic microbes emerge as promising biocontrol candidates. Plants ...