Rice endophytic communities are strongly dependent on microbial communities specific to each soil

This study aims to investigate the effects of the microbial source from 5 soil types collected across different geographical locations in Japan on the assemblage of endophytic bacterial communities in rice roots. Rice plants were grown in a hydroponic were inoculated with indigenous bacterial communities from five different soil types and. After 3 and 6 weeks, the endophytic bacterial communities in the rice roots were determined using the Illumina Miseq-based 16SrRNA gene amplicon sequencing method.