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Table 2 Overall abundancy and richness of the indigenous microbiota of the investigated oilseed rape seeds

From: The structure of the Brassica napus seed microbiome is cultivar-dependent and affects the interactions of symbionts and pathogens

Cultivar

Shannona

Bacterial abundanceb

Sherpa

9.1±0.3a

1.5 × 109 ± 8.0 × 108a

Traviata

9.2 ± 0.1a

1.9 × 109 ± 8.8 × 108 a

Avatar

8.3 ± 0.3b

8.9 × 108 ± 2.9 × 108 a

  1. Mean values and standard deviations (mean ± SD) are provided for seed samples. Values designated with the same letters were not significantly different (p < 0.05) according to a Tukey-HSD t test
  2. aThe richness was calculated using the Shannon estimator, and the graph was constructed using “observed OTUs” as the method of rarefication measurement
  3. bThe column labeled with (b) contains mean bacterial abundances per seed estimated using qPCR