Extended Data Fig. 9: Drought stress delayed transition to flowering.
From: Prolonged drought imparts lasting compositional changes to the rice root microbiome
a, Developmental growth stages of well-watered and drought-stressed rice plants through the experiment. Photos of each sample were taken at each time point and defined as either pre-panicle emergence (no portion of the panicle visible), panicle emergence (panicle partially emerged from flag leaf), anthesis (panicle fully emerged and anthers visible), grain filling (panicles bent over instead of standing upright), or maturity (flower colour appears yellow). b, Developmental growth stage and microbiome age predictions of rhizosphere and endosphere communities across drought treatments (D1, D2, and D3). The dashed curve represents the baseline microbiome development under well-irrigated conditions and was calculated by fitting a loess curve between the predicted microbiome age and the chronological plant age in the control (WC) test set.
