Fig. 3.

MdUGT88F1-mediated differences in rhizosphere bacterial community composition based on metagenomic sequencing data. a PCoA indicating significant divergence in rhizosphere bacterial communities between OE and RNAi plants at 90 days post-transplantation (P-values from PERMANOVA). b Differences in functional gene composition of the rhizosphere microbiome between OE and RNAi plants (PCoA; P-values from PERMANOVA). c Differences in OE and RNAi plant rhizosphere bacterial communities in terms of relative phyla abundances (arrows indicate direction of change; two-sided Student’s t-test). d Co-occurrence network analysis of the top 500 OTUs from the rhizosphere of OE and RNAi plants under ARD conditions. OE2-7 and OE3-4 (OE), MdUGT88F1 overexpression lines; Ri-3 and Ri-6 (RNAi), MdUGT88F1 silencing lines. In c, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001