Fig. 5

Schematic representation of major findings related to olive cultivars comparison of their belowground microbiome and the effects of Verticillium dahliae inoculation in microbial networks. In the network, red edges represent negative interactions between modules (solid circles). The red circle represents the module that includes V. dahliae. In the bottom table, for the cultivars comparison section (left), bacterial and fungal genera that showed significantly higher relative abundance in Frantoio or Picual non-inoculated communities are indicated. For the V. dahliae inoculation effect section (right), the most significant changes after pathogen inoculation, at both taxonomic (arrows showing decrease [in red] or increase [in green] in microbial taxa relative abundance for each compartment) and network (arrows showing disappearance [in red] or appearance [in green] in OTUs for each compartment) levels are shown