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However, limited studies have been conducted on the importance of soil microbiota in the early growth of oil palm seedlings (<jats:italic>Elaeis guineensis<\/jats:italic> Jacq.) under the influence of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) compound fertilizer (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium). In this study, we analyzed the root microbial community associated with seedlings grown under normal and sterilized soil conditions to ascertain the microbial strains potentially associated with soil, plant health and chemical fertilizer efficiency. Oil palm seedlings were grown under four treatments: (i) fertilized normal soil (+FN), (ii) unfertilized normal soil (\u2212FN), (iii) fertilized sterilized soil (+FS) and (iv) unfertilized sterilized soil (\u2212FS). Our findings revealed that chemical fertilizer promoted the growth of the copiotrophs Pseudomonadota and Bacteroidota in the control +FN, which are known to degrade complex polysaccharides. After autoclaving, the soil macronutrient content did not change, but soil sterilization reduced microbial diversity in the +FS and \u2212FS treatments and altered the soil microbiota composition. Sterilized soil with a depleted microbial population adversely affected crop growth, which was exacerbated by fertilizer use. In the rhizosphere and rhizoplane compartments, a total of 412 and 868 amplicon sequence variances (ASVs) were found depleted in the +FS and \u2212FS treatments, respectively. Several genera were identified in the ASVs with diminished abundance, including <jats:italic>Humibacter<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Microbacterium<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Mycobacterium<\/jats:italic>, 1921-2, HSB OF53-F07, <jats:italic>Mucilaginibacter<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Bacillus<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Paenibacillus<\/jats:italic>, and several unclassified genera, suggesting their possible roles in promoting the plant growth of oil palm seedlings. Soil sterilization might remove these beneficial microbes from the bulk soil pool, affecting the colonization ability in the rhizocompartments as well as their role in nutrient transformation. 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