A phylogenomic and metagenomic meta-analysis of bacterial diversity in the phyllosphere lifts a veil on hyphomicrobiales dark matter The phyllosphere, or above-ground part of plants, hosts diverse bacterial communities that play critical ecological roles and provide beneficial funct…

Our article on the dark matter in the #phyllosphere in Systematic and applied Microbiology!

#methylobacterium #lichenibacterium #lichenifustis #lichenihabitans and even more to discover in #Hyphomicrobiales (former Rhizobiales) inhabiting leave surfaces!

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Check out our preprint on #Methylobacterium ’s relative, #Lichenibacterium (aka 1174-901-12), my new favorite bacteria from the #phyllosphere ! Thanks to @skembel.bsky.social and our students David Ross and Louis-Philippe St-Amand for this work!
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