Fig. 3

General Ontology of metabolic pathways. The overall distribution of metabolic pathway types within the microbiome of in vitro Musa spp. shows that the top five categories are Cofactor and Amino Acid Biosynthesis, Energy Metabolism, Nucleotide Biosynthesis, and Lipid Biosynthesis (A). A heatmap of hierarchical clustering of rlog-transformed DESeq2 values highlights 28 pathways with relative differential abundance across Musa spp. microbiomes (B). The Maricongo variety demonstrates more variation in overall metabolic pathways compared to Maiden and Dwarf varieties.