Diversity of soilborne oomycetes associated with industrial hemp in southeastern Pennsylvania
The goal of this study was to generate a comprehensive taxonomic profile of oomycete species associated with industrial hemp soils in southeastern Pennsylvania, including both fiber and CBD production locations. We selected three molecular loci for metabarcoding based on previous studies (nuclear ITS1, mitochondrial COI and rps10), and evaluated the performance of each locus using two different mock communities.