Distinctive Phyllosphere bacterial communities in tropical trees.

• Main Authors: Kim, Mincheol, Singh, Dharmesh, Ang, Lai Hoe, Go, Rusea, Abdul Rahim, Raha, Nuruddin, Ahmad Ainuddin, Jongsik, Chun, Adams, Jonathan M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2012
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24013/1/Distinctive%20Phyllosphere%20bacterial%20communities%20in%20tropical%20trees.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24013/; http://link.springer.com/

Recent work has suggested that in temperate and subtropical trees, leaf surface bacterial communities are distinctive to each individual tree species and dominated by Alpha and Gammaproteobacteria. In order to understand how general this pattern is, we studied the phyllosphere bacterial community on...