US EditionNovel Research Reveals Thriving Microbial Life in Trees
UNITED STATES, AUG 6 – Researchers found that tree microbiomes vary by species and tree part, hosting about 1 trillion microbes that may influence tree health and forest carbon cycling, study says.
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Novel research reveals thriving microbial life in trees
There's a thriving community of diverse microbes living in tree wood, a new study led by a Yale School of the Environment team of scientists has found. A single tree hosts about one trillion bacteria in its woody tissue.
Tree-Microbe relationships run deep
The wood of living trees is Earth’s largest biomass reservoir storing 300+ gigatons of carbon. Yet, despite microbiome research being a hot topic, it’s gone largely unexplored. Now Wyatt Arnold, Jonathan Gewirtzman and other colleagues have published research on microbes inside living trees. Using pencil-thin increment borers on 150+ trees across 16 species, researchers collected samples from trees with painstaking care. Then they spent over a y…
Trees also have a microbiome: Up to a trillion bacteria, fungi and other microbes live in the wood of a single tree, as analyses reveal for the first time. Many of these wood dwellers are unique and are not known from any other habitat. Each tree species also has its own microbes community. This discovery of the wood microbiome underlines that each tree trunk is a world in itself – a small ecosystem of its own, according to the team in Nature. O…
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