Serious question: how could it not?
Surely the contribution is cataloging and detailing information about tree microbiomes and not proving that they aren't all identical?
Surely the contribution is cataloging and detailing information about tree microbiomes and not proving that they aren't all identical?
> Despite significant advances in microbiome research across various environments, the microbiome of Earth’s largest biomass reservoir—the wood of living trees—remains largely unexplored. Here, we illuminate the microbiome inhabiting and adapted to wood and further specialized to individual host tree species, revealing that wood is a harbour of biodiversity and potential key players in tree health and forest ecosystem functions. We demonstrate that a single tree hosts approximately one trillion bacteria in its woody tissues, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood, each maintaining unique microbiomes with minimal similarity to other plant tissues or ecosystem components. The heartwood microbiome emerges as a particularly unique ecological niche, distinguished by specialized archaea and anaerobic bacteria driving consequential biogeochemical processes. Our findings support the concept of plants as ‘holobionts’—integrated ecological units of host and associated microorganisms—with implications for tree health, disease and functionality. By characterizing the composition, structure and functions of tree internal microbiomes, our work opens up pathways for understanding tree physiology and forest ecology and establishes a new frontier in environmental microbiology.
This surely seems like a game changer and won’t need much of deforestation at some point.
Please please please stop believing the lie-box; especially don't post its slop for other people to read. It takes orders of magnitude longer for me to debunk this rubbish than it took you to post it, and that's a problem.
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Soil bacteria around plant roots are very different from all other soil.
But in very large scale (e.g., km), geology is main factor of microbiom composition.
So the previous studies usually focus on topics like:
1. how plant <-> enviroment <-> microbiome interactions work in small range(meter/cm/even mm length).
2. how bacteria diversity change in large scale, and how it influce plant and enviroment.
The first type is more common (cheaper), but comparing of bacteria diversity is difficult, usually we nee more than ten plants in each experimental group. So focusing on single plant require very different methods, and it is more difficult check whether it is not caused by random effects.