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Table 3 The impact of the setting Musa spp. were grown in (field vs. pot) and plant compartment on their associated observed bacterial OTUs and community composition (Hellinger transformed OTUs) as assessed using ANOVA and PERMANOVA, respectively

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

Predictor variable

Number of observed OTUs

Community composition (Hellinger distance)

d.f.

F value

P value

F value

R2 (%)

P value

Setting

1

5.3

0.022*

60.2

3.6

 < 0.001***

Compartment

4

860.7

 < 0.001***

85.2

20.5

 < 0.001***

Setting: compartment

4

45.2

 < 0.001***

22.5

5.2

 < 0.001***

  1. P < 0.05*, P < 0.01**, P < 0.001***