Diversity and Function of Soybean Rhizosphere Microbiome Under Nature Farming

Nature farming is a farming system that entails cultivating crops without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We investigated the bacterial and fungal communities in the rhizosphere of soybean grown in conventional and nature farming soils using wildtype and non-nodulating mutant soybean. The effect of soil fumigant was also analyzed to reveal its perturbation of microbial communities.