Nitrous oxide consumption is regulated with contracting community composition of nitrogen cycling microbes in the phyllosphere of Norway spruce in the boreal region

Nitrous oxide strong greenhouse gas sink strength of boreal and arctic peatlands and forests in a warming climate is a key question for climate change mitigation. Currently vegetation in the climate change assessment and greenhouse gas flux models are lacking information on microbiological mechanisms consuming atmospheric Nitrous oxide within above ground vegetation. Due to limitation of technique no single study is delineated phyllosphere microorganisms role in Nitrous oxide consumption. Therefore in the present study we first time uncover the microbial role in Nitrous oxide consumption in above ground processes using captured metagenomics techniques by designing gene specific probe