Table 8.

Community composition of switchgrass-adherent microbiome at the phylum level based on 16S rRNA pyrotag data.

	Percentage of sequences
	0 h	0.5 h	1 h	2 h	4 h	6 h	16 h	24 h	48 h	72 h
BACTERIA
Firmicutes	65.27	25.57	42.79	44.25	44.47	39.93	38.41	40.41	45.00	44.78
Proteobacteria	22.75	25.36	5.91	3.39	5.52	5.91	4.26	2.67	2.41	2.96
Bacteroidetes	7.29	34.09	32.02	36.84	28.02	37.00	35.08	35.37	32.47	34.54
Actinobacteria	3.79	0.60	0.39	0.48	0.70	0.28	0.20	0.23	0.36	0.43
Cyanobacteria	0.01	0.90	1.48	0.80	1.30	0.82	0.97	0.65	0.33	0.95
Spirochaetes	0.23	1.80	2.07	1.66	1.24	2.72	4.42	4.61	3.75	2.21
Tenericutes	0.21	7.46	6.18	5.10	10.34	5.78	4.59	3.47	3.17	4.61
Fibrobacteres	0.14	0.36	1.35	2.14	0.63	2.30	6.86	7.54	6.23	2.11
Elusimicrobia	0.03	0.40	0.39	0.23	0.30	0.25	0.29	0.26	0.26	0.27
Verrucomicrobia	0.01	0.37	0.52	0.50	0.58	0.36	0.32	0.26	0.27	0.64
Lentisphaerae	0.02	0.34	0.79	0.55	0.58	0.52	0.59	0.39	0.58	0.72
Planctomycetes	0.01	0.25	0.54	0.51	0.50	0.26	0.29	0.39	0.62	0.60
Chloroflexi	0.01	0.13	0.36	0.34	0.23	0.16	0.27	0.29	0.39	0.36
TM7	0.02	0.06	0.17	0.03	0.26	0.05	0.05	0.00	0.03	0.03
Synergistetes	0.00	0.03	0.18	0.06	0.06	0.13	0.12	0.09	0.15	0.10
Bacteria phyla <0.1%	0.04	0.04	0.07	0.04	0.04	0.01	0.05	0.05	0.11	0.10
Unclassified bacteria phyla	0.15	1.95	4.11	2.57	4.28	3.11	2.72	3.11	3.56	3.86
ARCHAEA
Euryarchaeota	0.01	0.29	0.67	0.50	0.96	0.43	0.23	0.22	0.31	0.73