Metagenomic analysis of rhizospheric soil during growth phases of rice using highthroughput amplicon sequence of ITS gene

Rice has three Important growth phases . 1. vegetative phase - From Plantation to Presence of tillers 2. Reproductive Phase - Panicle appearance & 3. Ripening Phase -grains ready for harvest . In our study , we observed the Fungal microbiome present in rice rhizospheric soil for all the above said three growth phases . Through High thoughput next generation sequencing , we observed 2332 OTU's in total , among them 738 OTU unique to Vegetative phase , 326 OTU in reproductive growth phase & 219 OTU observed unique to Ripening phase .