Phyllosphere Community Assembly and Response to Drought Stress on Common Tropical and Temperate Forage Grasses.

ABSTRACT: Grasslands represent a critical ecosystem important for global food production, soil carbon storage, and water regulation. Current intensification and expansion practices add to the degradation of grasslands and dramatically increase greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. Thus, new ways to sustain and improve their productivity are needed. Research efforts focus on the plant-leaf microbiome, or phyllosphere, because its microbial members impact ecosystem function by influencing pathogen resistance, plant hormone production, and nutrient availability through processes including nitrogen fixation. However, little is known about grassland phyllospheres and their response to environmental stress. In this study, globally dominant temperate and tropical forage grass species were grown in a gree

SUBMITTER: Bechtold EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8357280 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature