Table 4.
Means of 16S rDNA molecules for month in homogeneous subset based on real-time data analyzed by Duncan test
| Bacterial group | Month * | No. of plants |
Subset |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||
|
Alfaproteobacteriaa,b |
October |
12 |
4.25 |
|
| June |
11 |
46.64 |
|
|
| September |
12 |
52.50 |
|
|
| July |
11 |
55.82 |
|
|
| August |
12 |
|
136.50 |
|
|
Significance |
|
0.173 |
1.000 |
|
|
Gammaproteobacteriac,b |
September |
12 |
25895.00 |
|
| |
July |
12 |
41989.83 |
|
| |
October |
12 |
52245.75 |
|
| |
August |
12 |
76307.75 |
|
| |
June |
11 |
|
2109394.27 |
| |
Significance |
|
0.825 |
1.000 |
|
Firmicutesd,b |
October |
12 |
2044.50 |
|
| |
June |
11 |
2396.91 |
|
| |
July |
11 |
3873.36 |
3873.36 |
| |
August |
12 |
4107.25 |
4107.25 |
| |
September |
12 |
|
5026.75 |
| Significance | 0.061 | 0.278 | ||
*Months were in order of size; aUses harmonic mean sample size = 11,579; bα = 0.05; cUses harmonic mean sample size = 11,786; dUses harmonic mean sample = 11,579.