Phyllosphere Bacterial Community Members in Forage Grasses

By David Abraham
Biomedicine/Biosystems
iCons Year 4
2021
Advisors: 
Scott Auerbach, Chemistry
Justin Fermann, Chemistry
Phyllosphere Bacterial Community Members in Forage Grasses
Executive Summary 

Little bacteria that live on forage grasses are here to save the day! Or at least, that’s what scientists believe. These heroes are called phyllosphere bacteria because they’re found on the part of the plant called the phyllosphere (which is just a fancy name for the plant’s leaves). Phyllosphere bacteria help forage grasses survive against our villain – drought.

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Problem Keywords 
climate change
Scientific Keywords 
phyllosphere

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