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Microbial Attachment to Plant Aerial Surfaces

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Aerial Plant Surface Microbiology

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Plant aerial surfaces are colonised by a variety of microbes, including bacteria, fungi and yeasts. Some of these microbes are opportunistic pathogens, whereas others are specialised epiphytes. The outcome of the interaction between the microbe and the plant host is dependent on the plant-microbe combination. Often the host range for disease is more narrow than that for epiphytic colonisation.

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Romantschuk, M., Roine, E., Björklöf, K., Ojanen, T., Nurmiaho-Lassila, EL., Haahtela, K. (1996). Microbial Attachment to Plant Aerial Surfaces. In: Morris, C.E., Nicot, P.C., Nguyen-The, C. (eds) Aerial Plant Surface Microbiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34164-4_3

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