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Microbial Interactions Preventing Fungal Growth on Senescent and Necrotic Aerial Plant Surfaces

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Aerial Plant Surface Microbiology

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Although there is an extensive literature concerning many aspects of phyllosphere microbial ecology, only a small proportion addresses senescent and necrotic aerial plant tissues. But microbial activity on these surfaces is important, in part because the microflora there can interact with microbes on living plant surfaces (see Köhl and Fokkema, 1994; Fokkema, 1993). Furthermore, a consideration of the environment on senescent or non-living plant surfaces can bring forward, through contrast with the living phyllosphere, general principles of microbial ecology and interactions. In another chapter of this volume, Alan Rayner discusses fungal interactions on bark, a non-living layer of aerial tissue in woody plants. In contrast, this chapter addresses senescent and non-living aerial tissues of herbaceous plants — specifically, the physical and nutritional environment of these surfaces as it affects the microbial community, the microbial interactions that can limit the survival or activity of fungi there, and how these effects are relevant to microbial activity in phyllospheres of living plants.

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Pfender, W.F. (1996). Microbial Interactions Preventing Fungal Growth on Senescent and Necrotic Aerial Plant 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_8

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