Studying the microbial community composition and diversity from active weathering zones of lateritic terrains in Eastern India
In order to understand the role of microorganisms in the biological weathering of the laterite, we are interested in identifying the microbial communities (bacteria and fungi) present in the soil based on DNA extraction from the lateritic soil followed by sequencing of phylogenetic marker genes ( V3-V4 hypervariable regions of16SrRNA for bacteria and ITS for fungi