Deciphering core phyllomicrobiome assemblage on rice genotypes grown in contrasting agroclimatic zones: implications for phyllomicrobiome engineering against blast disease.

"availability of data and materials data sets were submitted to ncbi genbank with bioproject id prjna681302.; the data sets were also uploaded in mg-rast server under project id mgp94842 with following sample name and deposition numbers; prr78_plm1 (mgm4895994 3); prr78_plm2 (mgm4895995 3); pusa1602_plm1 (mgm4895999 3); pusa1602_plm2 (mgm4896000 3); prr78_ani1 (mgm4895998 3); prr78_ani2 (mgm4896001 3); pusa1602_ani1 (mgm4895997 3); pusa1602_ani2 (mgm4895996 3). availability of data and materials data sets were submitted to ncbi genbank with bioproject id prjna681302"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateOur manuscript entitled “Deciphering core-phyllomicrobiome assemblage of rice genotypes grown in contrasting agroclimatic zones: Implications for microbiome engineering against blast disease" complies with the Ethical Rules applicable to the journal. Consent for publicationsAll authors have read the manuscript and consented to the publication. Competing interestsThe authors declared no conflict of interest. Competing interests The authors declared no conflict of interest."

"Funding Kuleshwar Prasad Sahu offers sincere thanks to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for financial support in the form of Junior and Senior Research Fellowships (File No: 09/083(0367)/2016-EMR-I) for the Ph. D. program. Kuleshwar Prasad Sahu and A. Kumar are grateful to NAHEP-CAAST on "Genomics assisted crop improvement and management" for financial assistance."