fungal community composition in rhizosphere soil of rainforest and rubber plantation Metagenome. rhizosphere soil metagenome

The aims of this study were to evaluate how soil fungal communities are impacted by the conversion of rainforest to rubber plantations. Fungal richness and community composition in rhizosphere soils collected from rainforests, immature rubber and mature rubber plantations were analyzed using paired-end Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the fungal ITS2 rDNA fragment.