Table 1 Bacterial taxa with different abundance in soil samples treated by herbicides linuron and dimethachlor.

From: Changes in soil microbial community and activity caused by application of dimethachlor and linuron

Taxonomy level

Average percentage in treated soil

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Control

Linuron

266 mg kg−1

Linuron

2.66 mg kg

Dimethachlor

333 mg kg−1

Dimethachlor

3.33 mg kg−1

Acidobacteria

23.66

24.69

25.56

17.60***

24.13

 

Gp6 group

12.34

12.25

13.45

7.80***

12.51

Actinobacteria

21.26

22.18

20.20

20.54

20.41

 

Gaiella

4.67

3.84

4.31

3.56*

4.10

Bacteroidetes

2.99

2.86

3.30

2.16*

3.30

 

Chitinophagaceae

2.34

2.29

2.67

1.73*

2.54

Candidate division WPS-1

7.27

7.16

8.61

5.12*

7.93

Gemmatimonadetes

2.01

2.37*

1.98

1.25***

2.00

Planctomycetes

5.95

6.57

5.40

4.51*

6.98

Proteobacteria

24.54

21.30*

23.38

40.06***

22.25

 

Alphaproteobacteria

14.12

12.23*

13.11

15.26

12.27

 

Rhizobiales

5.34

4.59

4.78

3.80***

4.77

 

Rhodospirillales

4.20

3.44*

3.86

4.45

3.85

 

Sphingomonas

3.16

2.25*

2.98

2.44

2.40*

 

Sphingopyxis

0.99

1.51

1.06

2.46*

0.92

 

Betaproteobacteria

4.46

4.56

4.69

11.32***

4.71

 

Achromobacter

0.22

0.06

0.08

5.18***

0.06

 

Cupriavidus

0.43

0.14

0.02*

2.29***

0.16

 

Deltaproteobacteria

2.05

1.61*

2.52

0.98***

2.20

 

Gammaproteobacteria

3.91

2.90**

3.05

12.50***

3.06

 

Pseudomonas

0.44

0.28

0.34

5.53***

0.24

 

Xanthomonadales

3.34

2.44***

2.64

6.12***

2.60

 

Xanthomonadaceae

2.03

1.33*

1.39*

5.10***

1.39

 

Luteibacter

0.43

0.02

0.18

3.73***

0.10

Verrucomicrobia

7.56

6.55

6.93

4.00***

8.13

 

Spartobacteria

6.05

5.13

5.52

3.42***

6.21

  1. Only groups with abundance higher than 2% in any treatment are shown. Differently abundant groups are marked (Wilcox sum-rank test, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001).