Figure 4

LEfSe analysis of bacterial communities among tobacco leaves at different processing stages. (a) In the cladogram, the circle radiating from inside to outside represents the classification level from phyla to genus (or species). The microbial groups which are not significantly different between groups were colored as yellow. (b) In the LDA score histogram, the lowercase letters represent difference indicator species, of which “f” represents family, “g” represents genus and “s” represents species. Bcuring, Before flue-curing; Acuring, After flue-curing; Bredry, Before redrying; Aredry, After redrying.