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SUBMITTER: Finkel OM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3209174 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Finkel Omri M OM Burch Adrien Y AY Lindow Steven E SE Post Anton F AF Belkin Shimshon S
Applied and environmental microbiology 20110916 21
The leaf surfaces of Tamarix, a salt-secreting desert tree, harbor a diverse community of microbial epiphytes. This ecosystem presents a unique combination of ecological characteristics and imposes a set of extreme stress conditions. The composition of the microbial community along ecological gradients was studied from analyses of microbial richness and diversity in the phyllosphere of three Tamarix species in the Mediterranean and Dead Sea regions in Israel and in two locations in the United St ...[more]