Fig. 1
From: Plant developmental stage drives the differentiation in ecological role of the maize microbiome
Temporal dynamics of diversity and distribution patterns of crop-associated microbiomes. a Alpha-diversity of bacterial and fungal communities in plant compartments (phylloplane, leaf endosphere, rhizoplane and root endosphere) and soils (rhizosphere and bulk soils) across three plant developmental stages. b Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordinations based on weighted UniFrac distance matrices depicting the distribution patterns of bacterial and fungal communities along the soil–plant continuum (n = 432). Different letters above the boxes indicate a significant difference determined by nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test. The relative contribution of different factors on community dissimilarity was tested with PERMANOVA. “N” represents the effect of compartment niche, “D” represents the effect of developmental stage, “S” represents the effect of site. “XC” represents site “Xuchang”, “QJ” represents site “Qujing”. c NMDS ordinations based on weighted UniFrac distance matrices of bacterial and fungal communities in each compartment niche (phylloplane: n = 144; other niches: n = 54)