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SUBMITTER: Atamna-Ismaeel N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3608849 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Environmental microbiology 20110901 1
The above-ground surfaces of terrestrial plants, the phyllosphere, comprise the main interface between the terrestrial biosphere and solar radiation. It is estimated to host up to 10(26) microbial cells that may intercept part of the photon flux impinging on the leaves. Based on 454-pyrosequencing-generated metagenome data, we report on the existence of diverse microbial rhodopsins in five distinct phyllospheres from tamarisk (Tamarix nilotica), soybean (Glycine max), Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis t ...[more]