sustainability Article Exploring Rice Root Microbiome; The Variation, Specialization and Interaction of Bacteria and Fungi In Six Tropic Savanna Regions in Ghana Makoto Kanasugi 1, Elsie Sarkodee-Addo 2, Richard Ansong Omari 3,4, Khondoker Mohammad Golam Dastogeer 5,6 , Yoshiharu Fujii 2,6 , Samuel Oppong Abebrese 7 , Ralph Bam 8, Stella Asuming-Brempong 9 and Shin Okazaki 2,6,* 1 Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Nakacho 2-24-16, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +81-42-367-5847 Received: 11 June 2020; Accepted: 11 July 2020; Published: 20 July 2020 Abstract: We investigated the root microbiomes of rice sampled from six major rice-producing regions in Ghana using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput amplicon sequencing analysis.