Table 2.
Drivers of the soil microbial gene expression variation in response to neonicotinoid seed treatment, time and their interactions in a 2 year soybean/corn rotation in L'Acadie, Quebec, Canada (PERMANOVA based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarities)
|
SEED hierarchical gene expression |
RefSeq bacterial gene expression |
RefSeq eukaryotic gene expression |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Variable |
R 2 (%) |
F |
Pr(>F) |
R 2 (%) |
F |
Pr(>F) |
R 2 (%) |
F |
Pr(>F) |
|
Year/month |
25.07 |
14.64 |
0.001*** |
21.33 |
10.86 |
0.001*** |
10.9 |
4.65 |
0.001*** |
|
Neonicotinoid seed treatment |
1.91 |
1.11 |
ns |
2.13 |
1.08 |
ns |
1.87 |
0.8 |
ns |
|
Year/month :neonicotinoid seed treatment |
ns |
ns |
ns |
ns |
ns |
ns |
ns |
ns |
ns |
A colon (:) represents the interaction between variables and a slash (/) represents the nested interaction between variables.
Significance levels for each variable are given by: ***<P<0.001; **<P<0.01; *<P<0.05; ns, P≥0.05.