Soil and root microbial communities associated with sorghum genotypes differing in sensitivity to nitrogen stress Raw sequence reads. Soil and root microbial communities associated with sorghum genotypes differing in sensitivity to nitrogen stress

Sweet sorghum is a crop with a high potential for replacing maize in the biofuel industry in the United States because it has a high sucrose content. In addition, it has a higher tolerance to low soil N than maize, which could avoid many environmental problems due to excessive use of N fertilizers. In this study we assessed the changes in the soil and root-associated microbiomes of many sweet sorghum genotypes differing in the sensitivity to N-stress, in order to understand the role of associated microbial communities in the sorghum varieties tolerant to low soil N.