Fig. 6: Roots from marine-influenced ecosystems assemble a distinct microbial community enriched by bacteria known to conserve energy from sulfur metabolism. | Nature Communications

Fig. 6: Roots from marine-influenced ecosystems assemble a distinct microbial community enriched by bacteria known to conserve energy from sulfur metabolism.

From: Sulfur oxidation and reduction are coupled to nitrogen fixation in the roots of the salt marsh foundation plant Spartina alterniflora

Fig. 6

Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination plot based on the Bray-Curtis dissimilatory index of root-associated prokaryotic communities at the genus level, colored by ecosystem type (a). Relative abundance of putative sulfur-oxidizing (b) and sulfate-reducing root bacteria (c) by ecosystem type. Prokaryotic communities were characterized by analyzing an SSU rRNA gene amplicon dataset of 1182 samples assessing roots from 56 plant species. In boxplots, boxes are defined by the upper and lower interquartile; the median is represented as a horizontal line within the boxes; whiskers extend to the most extreme data point which is no more than 1.5 times the interquartile range. Different letter indicates statistical differences based on pairwise Mann–Whitney tests (two-sided, p-value < 0.05). NMDS stress: 0.10.

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