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Lettuce with a closer heart hosts a more diverse bacterial community compared with lettuce with a more open heart.

First surprising result: variety matters more than genetic distance in shaping leaf-associated bacteria! Second surprising result: this is mainly driven by leaf phenotypic traits and not by nutrient levels

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