Functional Potential of Soil Microbial Communities in the Maize Rhizosphere

• Xiangzhen Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangzhen Li, Junpeng Rui

  Affiliations Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, CAS, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Junpeng Rui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangzhen Li, Junpeng Rui

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization, CAS, Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sichuan, PR China

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• Jingbo Xiong,

  Affiliation School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

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• Jiabao Li,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, CAS, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Zhili He,

  Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States of America

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• Jizhong Zhou,

  Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States of America

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• Anthony C. Yannarell,

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

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• Roderick I. Mackie

  * E-mail: r-mackie@illinois.edu

  Affiliations Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

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