“…Pseudomonadota, Actinomycetota and Bacillota have been described as the most common phyla identified in the continental deep‐subsurface (Fry et al, 2009; Magnabosco et al, 2016; Nuppunen‐Puputti et al, 2022; Onstott et al, 2009; Wu et al, 2016; Zhang et al, 2005). Members of the most representative genera were previously identified in different continental deep subsurface drilling operations, Acidiphilium (Cockell et al, 2021; Johnson, 2012), Acidovorax (Liu et al, 2020; Miyoshi et al, 2005; Onstott et al, 2003; Shimizu et al, 2006), Acidithiobacillus (Johnson, 2012: Lau et al, 2016), Brevundimonas (Bell et al, 2020; Bose et al, 2020; Nuppunen‐Puputti et al, 2022; Onstott et al, 2009), Desulfovibrio (Bell et al, 2020; Motamedi & Pedersen, 1998; Shimizu et al, 2006), Pseudomonas (Boivin‐Jahns et al, 1996; Onstott et al, 2009; Shimizu et al, 2006; Zhang et al, 2005), Rhizobium (Dutta et al, 2018; Momper, Reese, et al, 2017; Zhang et al, 2005), Shewanella (Dutta et al, 2018; Fredrickson et al, 1998; Onstott et al, 2009), Arthrobacter (Lehman et al, 2004; Zhang et al, 2005), Propionibacterium (Boivin‐Jahns et al, 1996), Tessaracoccus (Cockell et al, 2012), Bacillus (Cockell et al, 2012; Dutta et al, 2018; Onstott et al, 2009; Zhang et al, 2005), Desulfosporosinu s (Onstott et al, 2009), Sulfobacillus (Gihring et al, 2006), Leptospirillum (Gihring et al, 2006; Johnson, 2012), and Cyanobacteria (Bose et al, 2020; Dutta et al, 2018; Gihring et al, 2006; Momper, Reese, et al, 2017), with the exception of Rhodoplanes for which this is the first report of its identification in the deep subsurface. The presence of genes encoding nitrate ammonification, denitrification, sulf...…”