Figure 3.

Methods of isolation and identification of rice endophytic bacterial communities: (A) samples collected from different parts of rice plants; (B) standard surface sterilization of the samples; (C) crushing of samples, followed by two methods for isolation, namely (D) culture-dependent method and (E) culture-independent method. (F) In culture-independent method, identification via Sanger sequencing or NGS; the figure was created with BioRender (https://biorender.com/, accessed on 25 August 2021).