Common garden experiments suggest terpene-mediated interactions between phyllosphere microbes and Cryptomeria japonica
In order to investigate the relationship between the variations in the composition of phyllosphere microbial community and the terpene emission from plants, we performed an amplicon sequencing targeting the 16S rRNA V4 region and the ITS2 region to quantify the composition of the bacterial and fungal communities in the phyllosphere of Cryptomeria japonica grown in two common gardens.