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Table 1 The impacts of soil, genotype, and plant compartment on observed bacterial OTUs and community composition (Hellinger transformed OTUs) using ANOVA and PERMANOVA, respectively

From: The core bacterial microbiome of banana (Musa spp.)

Predictor variable

Number of observed OTUs

Community composition

d.f.

F value

P value

F value

R2 (%)

P value

Compartment

7

268.6

 < 0.001***

26.1

29.3

 < 0.001***

Soil

4

1.6

0.167

6.2

4.0

 < 0.001***

Compartment: Soil

28

4.1

 < 0.001***

2.2

10.0

 < 0.001***

Compartment

7

113.2

 < 0.001***

16.2

33.3

 < 0.001***

Genotype

2

0.6

0.569

1.3

0.8

0.110

Compartment: Genotype

14

0.6

0.845

1.1

4.6

0.115

  1. P < 0.05*, P < 0.01**, P < 0.001***
  2. These results derive from our pot experiment which included five distinct soils, three Musa spp. genotypes, and eight compartments, each with 10 replicates
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Environmental Microbiome

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