Carving out the microbiota of Earth's largest biomass reservoir

Moshe Alon; Omri M. Finkel

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2025.09.008

Carving out the microbiota of Earth's largest biomass reservoir

Moshe Alon
, Omri M. Finkel^*

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Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (Natural Sciences)

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Abstract

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 dive into the unique and surprisingly diverse prokaryotic and fungal communities of heartwood and sapwood.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1643-1644
Number of pages	2
Journal	Cell Host and Microbe
Volume	33
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.09.008
State	Published - 8 Oct 2025

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Carving out the microbiota of Earth's largest biomass reservoir

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