Fig. 1

The diversity and stochasticity of prokaryotic and fungal communities in rhizosphere soil and root endophyte of M. sinensis and M. floridulus. A OTU richness. Horizontal lines within boxes denote medians. Top and bottom segments of the boxes denote the 75th and 25th percentiles, respectively. Upper and lower whiskers extend to data no more than 1.59 the interquartile range from the upper edge and lower edge of the box, respectively. Asterisks indicate significant differences among plant microhabitats (P < 0.001), based on Kruskal–Wallis one-way test. B The normalized stochasticity ratio (NST) of prokaryotic and fungal communities under different plant compartments in M. sinensis and M. floridulus developed based on Jaccard distances with 50% as the boundary point between more deterministic (< 50%) and more stochastic (> 50%) community assembly