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Aug 2026
Rethinking the soil core microbiome.
'core microbiome' should be reserved for microbial components explicitly demonstrated to be conserved across defined spatial, temporal, and environmental dimensions and linked to conserved ecological functions, while taxa selected for explanatory value are better described as 'explanatory subsets of taxa'.
Jaejin Lee, Bolívar Aponte Rolón, Phillip de Lorimier et al.
· New Phytologist · 1 citation