Fig. 1: Synthetic communities (SynComs) and individual bacterial strains affect sorghum root length phenotypes in a rapid seedling assay. | The ISME Journal

Fig. 1: Synthetic communities (SynComs) and individual bacterial strains affect sorghum root length phenotypes in a rapid seedling assay.

From: Identification of beneficial and detrimental bacteria impacting sorghum responses to drought using multi-scale and multi-system microbiome comparisons

Fig. 1

Green dots represent the root lengths of individual sorghum seedlings. a Box plots display medians (horizontal line), the 75th and 25th percentiles (top and bottom of box) and the upper and lower whiskers extend to data no more than 1.5× the interquartile range from the upper edge and lower edge of the box, respectively. b Each strain was tested individually (1–53) for effect on sorghum seedling root growth. Additional strain details (Supplemental Table 1). Gray dots represent the control (no bacterial treatment) seedlings. The solid black dots and lines represent the mean ± standard deviation. Specific features of each strain are summarized in the lower indicator table. Black shading indicates that the strain has that feature. RGI: Root Growth Inhibition. Red outline indicates Arthrobacter strains (47 and 51) that cause RGI in both Arabidopsis and sorghum. The number of replicated samples for each treatment a: n > 20, b: n ≥ 11. Wilcoxon rank-sum tests were performed between SynCom treatments and control samples (sorghum without microbial treatments) (a and b) and p values were corrected using the method of Benjamini–Hochberg to control for false discovery rate. *p < 0.05.

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