Advancing Microbial Identification in Complex Matrices: Oxford Nanopore Sequencing in High-Throughput Analysis

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Utilizing heterogeneous material (HM) instead of homozygote and uniform varieties can have substantial advantages when buffering unforeseeable weather conditions in a cropping season and adapting to local environments. Its increased diversity allows a more flexible adaptation to those varying scenarios. Besides the benefits of higher yield stability, maintaining or just describing an everchanging population of HM by commonly applied methods is highly problematic. Farmers who used to buy uniform varieties with a precise description of their characteristics will raise doubts about the suitability of the OM for their purpose.