Fig. 6

Identification of culturable vertically transmitted rice seed endophytes. a Number of culturable bacteria from parental (P) and offspring (O) seeds of two rice varieties (Dular and P64) harvested from four regions (SY, LF, NC, and XB). b Circular representation of the proportional structure of bacterial strains at genus level associated with the isolation groups listed in a. Visualization was rendered using the open-source software Circos. c Heatmap of reciprocal average nucleotide identity (ANI) of the Pantoea isolated from parental (P_) and offspring seeds (O_). ANIs were calculated using FastANI. Colored boxes indicate similarities scaled from low (blue) to high (red). d Heatmap of reciprocal concatenated core genome identity of the Pantoea isolated from parental (P_) and offspring seeds (O_). Analysis was based on reciprocal global alignment of concatenated 2505 single-copy gene sets of the 21 Pantoea strains. Colored boxes indicate similarities scaled from low (blue) to high (red). e Heatmap of reciprocal ANIs of the Xanthomonas isolated from parental (P_) and offspring seeds (O_). Annotation is the same as in e. f Heatmap of reciprocal concatenated core genome identity of the Xanthomonas isolated from parental (P_) and offspring seeds (O_). The analysis was based on reciprocal global alignment of concatenated 2508 single-copy genes sets of the 27 strains of Xanthomonas strains. Colored boxes indicate similarities scaled from low (blue) to high (red)