Metagenomic assessment of rhizosphere microbial communities associated with cultivated and wild sweet sorghum
The study aims at profiling the community structure diversity and function of the rhizosphere microbial communities associated with cultivated and wild sweet sorghum plants using shotgun metagenomic sequencing approach.The specific objectives of the study are:-determine the physiochemical properties of the soil samples obtained from the cultivated and wild rhizosphere.-determine taxonomic and microbial diversity, phylogenetic and evolutionary diversity for the microbes assemblages present using metagenomics and bioinformatics tools.-evaluate the functional profiles of the rhizosphere microbiome in cultivated and wild sweet sorghum,