Fig. 5
From: Disease-induced changes in plant microbiome assembly and functional adaptation
Microbiome functional diversity and differential abundance of functional genes/modules between the healthy and diseased plants based on KO, COG, CAZ, and ResFam functional profiles. a Enrichment and depletion of potential beneficial bacteria in the diseased plants compared with the healthy plants, as determined by metagenomic data analysis. "Rendo" represents root endosphere and "US-epidermis" represents upper stem epidermis. b Enrichment and depletion of potential pathogenic fungi in the diseased plants compared with the healthy plants, as determined by metagenomic data analysis. c NMDS ordinations of functional genes based on Bray–Curtis distance matrices of KO, CAZ, and ResFam functional genes showing the diseased upper stem epidermis microbiome significantly differed from that of the healthy plant. No such significant differences were apparent in the root endosphere microbiome (shown in Fig. S14a). d FWD significantly decreased the functional diversity of KO (P = 0.0314), COG (P = 0.0074), and Resfam (P = 0.0065) profiles in the upper stem epidermis microbiome, but showed no significant effect on the root endosphere microbiome (P > 0.05). e Differential abundance analysis of microbiome functional genes between the healthy (red) and diseased (blue) plants. f Relative abundance of microbiome functional genes involved in methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins and their downstream targets in the root endosphere