Rhizosphere microbiome and functioning at different growth stages of rice under different cultivation methods
The rhizosphere soils of field-grown rice (Cultivar Co51) grown under three different cultivation methods viz., conventional wetland, system of rice intensification and direct seeded aerobic rice were assessed for the bacterial community composition at tillering (40 days old), flowering (80 days old), and maturity (110 days) stages. The metagenomic DNA was extracted from the soils and V3-V4 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene amplcons were sequenced by Ion torrent platform.