Fig. 2

Ternary plots highlighting the distribution of the most abundant bacterial ASVs in the three root compartments for each hormonal treatment and timepoint. Each ASV is represented by a circle whose size is proportional to the average relative abundance across the three compartments. ASVs enriched in each specific compartment (significantly most abundant compared to the two others) are coloured (brown in unplanted soil, yellow in rhizosphere and green in root endosphere) while those not significantly enriched in any compartments are indicated in gray. The exact number of compartment-enriched ASVs is indicated in brackets at the triangle vertices. Only the most abundant ASVs that passed the HTS-filtering step prior to differential abundance analysis with DESeq2 (FDR < 0.05) were plotted here. Each plot column indicates a different treatment while row depicts ternary plot for each timepoint as indicated in the figure text annotation.