The structure and function of the global citrus rhizosphere microbiome

Research on plant root-associated microbial communities may help develop more efficient or sustainable crop production methods. Here the authors analyse the citrus rhizosphere microbiome, using both amplicon and deep shotgun metagenomic sequencing of samples collected across six continents.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jin Xu, Yunzeng Zhang, Pengfan Zhang, Pankaj Trivedi, Nadia Riera, Yayu Wang, Xin Liu, Guangyi Fan, Jiliang Tang, Helvécio D. Coletta-Filho, Jaime Cubero, Xiaoling Deng, Veronica Ancona, Zhanjun Lu, Balian Zhong, M. Caroline Roper, Nieves Capote, Vittoria Catara, Gerhard Pietersen, Christian Vernière, Abdullah M. Al-Sadi, Lei Li, Fan Yang, Xun Xu, Jian Wang, Huanming Yang, Tao Jin, Nian Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07343-2