Table 1. Percentage dissimilarity (D) and significant values (P) of rhizosphere fungal or bacterial fingerprints between different maize lines (KWS13, KWS14, KWS15 and MON88017) grown in the soil types Haplic Chernozem, Haplic Luvisol, and Eutric Vertisol.

	Haplic Chernozem		Haplic Luvisol		Eutric Vertisol
	D	P	D	P	D	P
Fungi
KWS13/KWS14	2.2	0.06	6.2	0.03	2	0.03
KWS13/KWS15	14	0.03	14.1	0.03	8.7	0.03
KWS13/MON	21.2	0.03	16.6	0.03	8.8	0.03
KWS14/KWS15	14.8	0.03	18.7	0.03	11.1	0.03
KWS14/MON88017	21.7	0.03	17.8	0.02	8.6	0.03
KWS15/MON88017	9.3	0.03	1.2	0.3	5.5	0.03
Bacteria
KWS13/KWS14	9.3	0.03	15.4	0,03	30	0.03
KWS13/KWS15	18.1	0.03	27.3	0.03	50	0.03
KWS13/MON88017	15	0.03	26.6	0.03	65.2	0.03
KWS14/KWS15	17.5	0.03	9.5	0.06	50.6	0.03
KWS14/MON88017	14.2	0.03	24.3	0.03	56.8	0.03
KWS15/MON88017	27.2	0.03	16.9	0.03	12.8	0.03

Values of P<0.05 indicate significant differences between rhizosphere samples of different maize lines grown in the same soil type. Permutation testing was done with 10.000 simulations. Bold values indicate significant differences.