Table 3 Variation in the root-associated bacterial community of apple saplings linked to sampling timepoint (TP). Pairwise differences in beta diversity between individual timepoints in the L- and T-compartment are displayed. Effect sizes were assessed by PERMANOVA based on DEICODE distance matrices. Significant results (p < 0.05) are in bold
Compartment | Variable | PERMANOVA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
F.Model | R2 | p-value | ||
L | TP1–TP2 | 15.896 | 0.290 | 0.001 |
|  | TP2–TP3 | 4.327 | 0.086 | 0.005 |
|  | TP1–TP3 | 26.054 | 0.357 | 0.001 |
T | TP1–TP2 | 21.646 | 0.382 | 0.001 |
|  | TP2–TP3 | 6.323 | 0.116 | 0.002 |
|  | TP1–TP3 | 32.377 | 0.388 | 0.001 |