Transgenic switchgrass soils - Raw sequence reads. uncultured prokaryote

The soil rhizosphere effects of altered-lignin transgenic switchgrass plants (downregulating caffeic acid O-methyltranferase, COMT, in the lignin biosysthetic pathway) were evaluated over the first two years of establishment in the field. We used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to examine soil bacterial communities. We found that there were no significant changes in bacterial community diversity or structure between transgenic plants and their non-transgenic controls.