Metagenomic analysis of phosphorus-cycling microbial communities in rhizosphere soils of tobacco-safflower rotation fields
This project investigates the spatial variation of phosphorus-cycling microbial communities and functional genes in safflower rhizosphere soils from tobacco-safflower rotation fields in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing was performed on 21 rhizosphere soil samples collected from seven rotation fields to characterize phosphorus-cycling bacterial taxa, functional genes involved in phosphate solubilization, phosphorus mineralization, phosphorus regulation and phosphorus transport, and their associations with soil physicochemical properties.