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Artificial Intelligence in Plant Sciences
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sRNA_seq_clean_thrips_leafdiscs_timeseries
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sRNA_seq_clean_thrips_leafdiscs_timeseries
Geographic patterns and soil-to-bark microbial transmission shape microbiome assembly in tea trees.
PubMed · 2026-06-26
Soil acts as the primary microbial source for tea tree bark, seeding the bark with bacteria and fungi that then specialize for life on the tree. Geography and soil chemistry — especially nitrogen and organic matter — are the main forces shaping which microbes end up where.
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Bulk soil supplied 100% of bark bacteria and 68% of bark fungi in the Pu'er region, confirming soil as the dominant microbial reservoir for tea tree bark.
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Plant type (cultivar) explained 76% of variation in bark bacterial communities, while geographic location explained up to 79% of fungal variation in soil.
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Total nitrogen and organic matter in soil were the strongest predictors of microbial community composition across both soil and bark niches.
