Table 2.

Composition of the most abundant bacterial genera (>1% relative abundance) in the rhizosphere of chickpea grown in different soil samples inoculated with a mixture of M. ciceri USDA3378^T and M. muleiense CCBAU 83963^T.

Bacterial Genus	Average Relative Abundance (%) in Rhizosphere of Treatment *
	YRASmix	XRASmix	BRASmix	QRASmix
Rhizobium	16.70 ± 1.82	1.9 ± 0.18	2.35 ± 0.25	6.64 ± 0.76
Pseudomonas	4.04 ± 0.28	0.24 ± 0.04	0.20 ± 0.07	0.02 ±0.02
Arthrobacter	3.52 ± 0.62	2.45 ± 0.17	6.02 ± 0.88	9.19 ± 1.24
Sphingomonas	3.41 ± 0.16	3.01 ± 0.27	4.50 ± 0.72	4.62 ± 0.25
JG30-KF-CM45	2.88 ± 0.14	0.72 ± 0.03	3.07 ± 0.14	1.10 ± 0.12
Xanthomonas	2.55 ± 0.28	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
Sphingobacterium	2.48 ± 0.23	1.49 ± 0.36	1.48 ± 0.50	0.00 ± 0.00
Pantoea	2.23 ± 0.27	0.38 ± 0.03	0.01 ± 0.00	0.02 ± 0.01
f__Caulobacteraceae	1.97 ± 0.07	0.21 ± 0.02	1.13 ± 0.11	0.08 ± 0.01
Stenotrophomonas	1.88 ± 0.28	0.63 ± 0.48	0.81 ± 0.16	0.03 ± 0.02
Nocardioides	1.61 ± 0.41	2.25 ± 0.08	2.01 ± 0.25	1.08 ± 0.14
Novosphingobium	1.21 ± 0.10	2.07 ± 0.32	1.07 ± 0.15	0.12 ± 0.00
Streptomyces	0.77 ± 0.02	1.75 ± 0.17	2.41 ± 0.59	2.15 ± 0.18
Rubrobacter	0.70 ± 0.97	0.03 ± 0.00	2.20 ± 0.20	0.36 ± 0.05
o__Vicinamibacterales	0.67 ± 0.14	3.72 ± 0.69	2.55 ± 0.26	1.01 ± 0.25
67–14	0.67 ± 0.02	2.42 ± 0.08	1.21 ± 0.15	1.93 ± 0.14
o__Gaiellales	0.59 ± 0.02	3.56 ± 0.21	2.32 ± 0.05	5.66 ± 0.22
Gaiella	0.57 ± 0.01	1.27 ± 0.16	1.07 ± 0.04	3.07 ± 0.27
c__KD4-96	0.57 ± 0.11	1.55 ± 0.20	2.23 ± 0.14	0.38 ± 0.08
Bacillus	0.37 ± 0.09	2.01 ± 0.08	1.56 ± 0.19	1.02 ± 0.33
Burkholderia	0.03 ± 0.00	0.70 ± 0.10	4.07 ± 0.24	7.19 ± 0.41
Enterobacter	0.00 ± 0.00	1.20 ± 0.07	0.10 ± 0.02	3.64 ± 4.39

*. YR, XR, BR, and QR refer to the sampling sites Yinggebao, Xinyang, Baicheng, and Qiubei, respectively. ASmix represents mixed inoculation with the two test strains.