Fig. 4: Bacterial and fungal communities in the nettle and reed fertilizers.

a Composition of the bacterial communities in the nettle and reed fertilizers (n = 4 biological replicates each across two experiments); b, composition of the fungal communities in the nettle (n = 3) and reed fertilizers (n = 2). c Relative abundance of selected major differentially abundant 16S rRNA gene ASVs between nettle and reed fertilizers (DESeq2 foldchange > 2 and adjusted p < 0.01). Boxplots represent the data interquartile range, with the center line denoting the median and samples requiring a pseudocount for logarithmic plotting are highlighted with transparency; *** = adjusted p-value < 0.001. ASVs not present at >2% in multiple fertilizer samples were merged into the other category, see Supplementary Data 2 and 3 for further details. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.