Maize synthesized benzoxazinoids affect the host associated microbiome

Microbiome

Table 2 Permutation analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) using “adonis” test on UniFrac-weighted matrices for bacterial and Bray-Curtis distance matrices for fungal community dissimilarity assessment using 1000 permutations

Data set	Factor	Bacteria (R²)	Fungal (R²)
Whole	Compartment	0.46***	0.40***
Root	Genotype	0.17**	0.13***
	DAS	0.16***	0.04***
	Genotype*DAS	0.13**	0.11***
Rhizosphere	Genotype	0.13***	0.14***
	DAS	0.02*	0.03***
	Genotype*DAS	0.21***	0.11***
Rhizosphere_W22_1	Genotype	--	0.08***
	DAS	--	0.07*
	Genotype*DAS	0.24**	0.05*
Rhizosphere_W22_2	Genotype	0.18***	0.13***
	DAS	--	0.05***
	Genotype*DAS	0.18***	0.12***
Root_ W22_1	Genotype	0.20**	0.13***
	DAS	0.21***	0.06*
	Genotype*DAS	--	0.07**
Root_ W22_2	Genotype	0.13**	0.11***
	DAS	0.14***	0.07***
	Gen*DAS	0.19***	0.10***

Significance of test indicated as *** for p < 0.001, ** p > 0.01, *p < 0.05, and R² for proportion of variation explained. Root and rhizosphere microbial dataset split based on genetic background of W22_1 and W22_2

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