Table 2 Microbial community richness and diversity indices of the four Allium species at a 97% similarity threshold.

From: Illumina-based Analysis of Endophytic Bacterial Diversity of four Allium species

Sample

Nseqs

OTUs

Coverage

Chao

Ace

Shannon

Npshannon

CL

5121.33 ± 1503.40a

435.33 ± 55.19a

0.98 ± 0.01a

484.10 ± 48.97a

494.02 ± 44.63a

4.95 ± 0.11a

5.03 ± 0.10a

WO

1071.67 ± 564.35b

70.00 ± 35.10b

0.98 ± 0.01a

91.70 ± 47.00b

110.32 ± 51.25c

2.54 ± 0.51b

2.62 ± 0.53b

GA

1433.33 ± 117.02b

113.67 ± 24.10b

0.97 ± 0.00a

176.82 ± 28.97b

243.01 ± 15.87b

3.07 ± 0.29b

3.18 ± 0.30b

ON

2093.33 ± 995.73ab

110.00 ± 26.84b

0.97 ± 0.01a

165.59 ± 26.48b

200.50 ± 35.24bc

3.04 ± 0.30b

3.14 ± 0.27b

  1. Note: Nseqs, number of sequences analyzed; OTU, operational taxonomical unit; ACE, abundance-based coverage estimator. Values are means ± standard error (n = 3). Different letters indicate statistically significant differences at the 0.05 probability level according to Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) test. CL: Chinese leek; WO: Welsh onion; GA: Garlic; ON: onion.
Back to article page