Fig 1. Structure of the inoculums and communities following a 48-hour incubation in terms of A) bacterial load, B) richness and C) Shannon’s diversity.

Statistical significance between groups was determined by a Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test followed by a Dunns post-hoc test using the Benjamini-Hochberg method for FDR control with alpha = 0.05 and is indicated in the figure with an * symbol. INO = inoculum; CON = control; TSE = tomato seed extract.