Linking belowground microbial network changes to different tolerance level towards Verticillium wilt of olive

Microbiome

Table 2 PERMANOVAs of quantitative beta diversity index show similar microbial communities between olive cultivars and treatments

		Bray-Curtis*
Dataset	Comparison	Bacteria	Fungi
Whole	Endo vs. Rhizo	*0.001*	*0.001*
Root Endosphere	DNA vs. RNA	*0.001*	*0.001*
Rhizosphere	DNA vs. RNA	*0.001*	*0.001*
EndoDNAFraC	Time course (T0 vs. T8 vs. T15 vs. T30)	0.308	0.109
EndoRNAFraC		*0.019*	*0.011*
RhizoDNaFraC		*0.001*	*0.001*
RhizoRNAFraC		*0.001*	*0.001*
EndoDNaPicC		*0.003*	*0.002*
EndoRNAPicC		*0.001*	*0.001*
RhizoDNAPicC		*0.001*	*0.001*
RhizoRNAPicC		*0.001*	*0.001*
EndoDNA_0	Frantoio vs. Picual (each time)	0.163	*0.027*
EndoRNA_0		0.171	*0.041*
RhizoDNA_0		0.064	0.091
RhizoRNA_0		*0.030*	0.104
EndoDNA_8		0.119	*0.018*
EndoRNA_8		0.058	0.271
RhizoDNA_8		*0.008*	*0.028*
RhizoRNA_8		0.091	0.074
EndoDNA_15		0.325	*0.026*
EndoRNA_15		0.058	*0.003*
RhizoDNA_15		0.555	0.632
RhizoRNA_15		0.485	0.615
EndoDNA_30		*0.016*	*0.019*
EndoRNA_30		*0.004*	*0.021*
RhizoDNA_30		0.706	*0.009*
RhizoRNA_30		0.438	0.378
EndoDNA_8	Control vs. Inoculated (each time)	0.117	0.313
EndoRNA_8		0.113	*0.049*
RhizoDNA_8		0.161	0.124
RhizoRNA_8		0.074	0.075
EndoDNA_15		0.081	0.115
EndoRNA_15		0.241	0.114
RhizoDNA_15		*0.006*	*0.001*
RhizoRNA_15		*0.009*	*0.001*
EndoDNA_30		0.164	0.808
EndoRNA_30		0.569	0.666
RhizoDNA_30		0.058	*0.017*
RhizoRNA_30		0.054	0.050

Figures in boldface and italics show significant p values (<0.05). Endo root endosphere, Rhizo Rhizosphere, Fra Frantoio, Pic Picual, C control, Ino inoculated with Verticillium dahliae, T0 initial time-point of the experiment. Data collected before inoculation. T8 eight days after inoculation (dai), T15 fifteen dai, T30 thirty dai
*p values from PERMANOVA tests are shown

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