soil metagenome Metagenome

We collected soil samples from a sun coffee system, shade coffee system, and nearby forest from Izalco, Sonsonate, El Salvador. At each coffee system, we collected soil samples from the surface (upper) and 10 cm below the surface (lower), and from the coffee plant drip line (drip line) and the walkway between two plants (walkway). Forest samples were collected from the soil surface only. We used high-throughput ITS meta-barcode sequencing to characterize soil fungal communities.