Figure 3.

Distribution of rhizobacterial phyla in wheats with different ploidy levels ternary; plots showing relative abundance of all culture-independent bacterial ASVs for diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid wheats from non-fertilized (A) rhizosphere, (B) rhizoplane, and fertilized (C) rhizosphere, (D) rhizoplane samples, and each point represents an ASV and is colored based on phylum level; the size of each point represents its proportional abundance calculated from normalized counts of the most abundant ASV, and its position represents its relative abundance with respect to each ploidy group, and triangles represent ASVs significantly enriched in one wheat ploidy compared with the others based on DESeq2 differential abundance analysis at a significance level of P < .05, adjusted for multiple testing using the Benjamini–Hochberg procedure; circular points represent ASVs that are not significantly enriched in any wheat; pie charts represent the percentage of differentially abundant phyla generated from the cumulative baseMean for ASVs (average of the normalized count values, divided by size factors, taken over all samples); a full list of differentially abundant ASVs can be found in Supplementary Data S4.