High-Throughput Sequencing Survey of Sunflower Soil

Olubukola Oluranti Babalola; Blessing Chidinma Nwachukwu; Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro

doi:10.1128/MRA.01331-20

High-Throughput Sequencing Survey of Sunflower Soil

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Feb 25;10(8):e01331-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01331-20.

Authors

Olubukola Oluranti Babalola¹, Blessing Chidinma Nwachukwu², Ayansina Segun Ayangbenro²

Affiliations

¹ Food Security and Safety Niche, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa olubukola.babalola@nwu.ac.za.
² Food Security and Safety Niche, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa.

Abstract

Plant rhizobiomes are responsible for major soil processes in the immediate plant environment, but our knowledge of the linkage between below-ground microbiota diversity and plant health is limited. We studied the bacterial and archaeal communities of sunflower rhizosphere organisms by comparing the composition of these communities to bulk soils at three farms in the North West province of South Africa. We evaluated and described a plethora of bacterial and archaeal taxa.