Soybean and Cotton Spermosphere Soil Microbiome Shows Dominance of Soilborne Copiotrophs

Abstract

The central hypothesis of this research was that plant species and seed exudate release would alter the assembly of microbes in the spermosphere soil. Our research investigated the response of microbes to the initial burst of nutrients into the spermosphere soil, filling knowledge gaps from previous studies that pregerminated seeds under sterile conditions.