Table 3.

Bacterial and Fusarium oxysporum abundance, bacterial diversity, and richness following application of compost at 10% to soil in growth chamber experiments. Means with same letter in same row are not significantly different (P < 0.05) based on analysis of variance (ANOVA). SD, standard deviation. Each treatment had three replicates. Units for abundance measurements are ng/µl. Bacterial diversity was measured based on the Shannon Index (H′). Bacterial diversity and richness are based on genus level classification

	Bacterial abundance	Bacterial diversity	Bacterial richness	Fusarium abundance
Growth chamber experiment 1
Control (Mean ± SD)	1.98 ± 0.6 a	5.06 ± 0.07 a	1460 ± 41.5 a	0.109 ± 0.03 a
Compost (10%) (Mean ± SD)	1.46 ± 0.6 a	5.24 ± 0.03 b	1540 ± 13.7 b	0.0392 ± 0.007 b
Growth chamber experiment 2
Control (Mean ± SD)	1.70 ± 0.5 a	5.24 ± 0.05 a	1540 ± 6.2 a	0.0674 ± 0.02 a
Compost (10%) (Mean ± SD)	1.11 ± 0.4 a	5.24 ± 0.09 a	1540 ± 25.3 a	0.0314 ± 0.01 b