Soil bacteria colonize plants without causing visible disease, yet many suppress host growth. The prevalence and evolutionary reach of this cryptic inhibition are unknown, because phenotyping hundreds...

Biological diversity revealed by metagenomic sequencing far exceeds that of known or cultured organisms, yet much of this diversity remains inaccessible because most sequences from complex habitats, s...

Despite being an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems for ∼400 million years, the microbiome of wood is surprisingly underexplored. In a recent issue of Nature, Arnold et al. make a long overdue d...

Despite being an essential part of terrestrial ecosystems for ∼400 million years, the microbiome of wood is surprisingly underexplored. In a recent is…