Bacterial diversity and composition on the rinds of specific melon cultivars and hybrids from across different growing regions in the United States.

The goal of this study was to characterize the bacterial diversity on different melon varieties grown in different regions of the US, and determine the influence that region, rind netting, and variety of melon has on the composition of the melon microbiome. Assessing the bacterial diversity of the m...

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Main Authors: Madison Goforth, Victoria Obergh, Richard Park, Martin Porchas, Kevin M Crosby, John L Jifon, Sadhana Ravishankar, Paul Brierley, Daniel L Leskovar, Thomas A Turini, Jonathan Schultheis, Timothy Coolong, Rhonda Miller, Hisashi Koiwa, Bhimanagouda S Patil, Margarethe A Cooper, Steven Huynh, Craig T Parker, Wenjing Guan, Kerry K Cooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293861&type=printable