Roots alter soil microbial diversity and interkingdom interactions in diversified agricultural landscapes

In-situ trait-based and root exclusion experiment to determine the pattern of microbe interaction and their association with root functional traits across riparian buffer types in an agricultural landscape in southern Ontario, Canada. Using Amplicon-based analysis of 16S rRNA and ITS transcripts we evaluated soil bacterial, archaeal, and fungal communities, and their interactions, with ‘roots’ and with ‘no roots’ (root exclusion) in four plant communities at the edges of agricultural fields. Plants roots were measured for a suite of functional traits and explored in association with microbial community composition. Data consist of root functional traits from four riparian buffer types with four sampling plots each at two different sampling times (n=32).