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NMDS illustrates the phyllosphere bacterial communities showing separate clusters of bacterial communities between different sampling months for (A) epiphytic and (B) endophytic bacterial communities.
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Background: The evolutionary relationships between plants and their microbiome are of high importance to the survival of plants in extreme conditions. Changes in microbiome of plants can affect plant development, growth and health. Along the arid Arava, southern Israel, acacia trees ( Acacia raddiana and Acacia tortilis ) are considered keystone sp...
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... to other findings indicating the changes in bacterial communities in phyllosphere following different environmental and biotic factors [38,39], our results show seasonality to be the major driver of community composition in epiphytic bacteria (Fig. 4A and Fig. 6), including a specific abiotic parameters such as; humidity, temperature, precipitation and VPD ( Fig. 7A and B). While these results highlight the significant effect of temperature on both epiphytic and endophytic bacterial communities, the effect of microclimate (different canopy sides) on the epiphytic bacterial diversity (Table 3) ...
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