Figure 2
The difference in the overall microbial community structure and diversity present in palm wines produced from three palm tree species. (A) PCoA using Bray–Curtis dissimilarity based on the species-level OTUs shows a significant difference between the palm wine samples based on the tree species. The significance in the difference expressed as Bonferroni corrected p-values (q = 0.0001, F = 6.5, PERMANOVA; q = 0.0001, R = 0.4335, ANOSIM). PERMANOVA: Permutational multivariate analysis of variance; ANOSIM: Analysis of similarities. (B) The boxplot shows the existence of high microbial diversity in the ron palm wine (Chao species richness and Shannon diversity) than the other two palm wine types. The significance in the difference was calculated by Students t-test, 2 tailed (indicated as *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001).
