Editorial: Microbiomes of art and their importance in preserving cultural heritage

Front Microbiol. 2023 Nov 10:14:1321133. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1321133. eCollection 2023.

António Portugal^{1

2

3}, Xiaobo Liu⁴, Adam Pyzik^{5

6}, João Trovão¹

¹ Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Functional Ecology (CFE) - Science for People and the Planet, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal.
² FitoLab - Laboratory for Phytopathology, Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), Coimbra, Portugal.
³ TERRA - Associate Laboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁴ School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
⁵ Department of Building Materials Engineering and Geoengineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland.
⁶ Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

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Keywords: archaeological wood; art; biocides; biodeterioration; conservation; cultural heritage; microbiome; restoration.

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