Insights into the taxonomic and functional characterization of agricultural crop core rhizobiomes and their potential microbial drivers.

ABSTRACT: While our understanding of plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere microbiome (rhizobiome) has increased, there is still limited information on which taxa and functions drive these rhizobiome interactions. Focusing on the core rhizobiome (members common to two or more microbial assemblages) of crops may reduce the number of targets for determining these interactions, as they are expected to have greater influence on soil nutrient cycling and plant growth than the rest of the rhizobiome. Here, we examined whether the characterization of a core rhizobiome on the basis of only taxonomic or functional traits rather than the combined analysis of taxonomic and functional traits provides a different assessment of the core rhizobiome of agricultural crops. Sequences of the bacterial 16S rRNA

SUBMITTER: Castellano-Hinojosa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8115259 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature