In contrast, the abundance and diversity of fungal communities varied less, but showed an overall trend of increasing and decreasing with the increase in fermentation time.
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Diversity of microbial communities in cigar filler leaves with different initial water contents analyzed based on high-throughput sequencing technology.
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The relative abundance of Firmicutes increased over time, rising from 0.25 to 59.32% after air curing, while Proteobacteria exhibited a decreasing trend, falling to 40.46% by the end of fermentation ( Figure 4A ).