Composition of the microbiome associated with strawberries
Strawberries were subsampled for genomic DNA extraction. The amount of biomass utilized for extraction was 1 g on average. The extraction was done with the DNeasy Power Soil Kit (Qiagen, Germany). The V4 region of bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gene was PCR-amplified with primers 520F (5-AYTGGGYDTAAAGNG-3) and 799R (CAGGGTATCTAATCCTGTT).