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Function-Based Metagenomics to Reveal Rhizosphere Microbiome: A Glimpse

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To unravel the perplexity of cultivation methodologies, several technical efforts that involve molecular methods have been widely introduced. However, it is not feasible to elucidate the wide presence of soil microorganisms employing traditional approaches. Nowadays, a different approach has been employed, the so-called metagenome (MG), to know the functionality of bulk and rhizospheric soil, and later the result of comparative analysis on environmental MG was reported and suggested that comparative MG approach can be an extremely valuable tool for the characterization of complex microbial communities.

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Ajit Varma is thankful to Department of Science and Technology and Department of Biotechnology for partial financial funding and to DST-FIST for providing confocal microscope facility.

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Choudhary, D.K., Varma, A. (2017). Function-Based Metagenomics to Reveal Rhizosphere Microbiome: A Glimpse. In: Varma, A., Sharma, A. (eds) Modern Tools and Techniques to Understand Microbes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49197-4_7

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