Phage-Mediated Modulation of the Phyllosphere Microbiome and its Role in Pathogen Control in Arabidopsis thaliana

Phages in microbial communities Within marine and soil microbial communities lytic and temperate phages play a major role on ecological processes, bacterial abundance and microbe-microbe interactions 1, 2 In the phyllosphere phages are suspected to be as common as their bacterial hosts 3 With its well-characterized immune responses and microbial community Arabidopsis thaliana is well suited to study phage-microbe-host interactions Aim: Uncover the impact of phages on the A. thaliana core microbiome of the phyllosphere