TABLE 5.
Diversity indices for bacterial and fungal OTUs associated with the rhizosphere of healthy and diseased P. mariana seedlings
| Phylogenetic group and sourcea | Species richness index
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Evenness or dominance index
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of recorded OTUs | Shannon index (H′) | Margalef index (Dmg) | Shannon evenness index (E) | Simpson's index (D) | Berger-Parker index (d) | |
| Bacteria | ||||||
| Healthy seedlings | 58 | 4.036 | 12.298 | 0.994 | 0.012 | 0.039 |
| Diseased seedlings | 50 | 3.566 | 10.916 | 0.911 | 0.014 | 0.045 |
| Fungi | ||||||
| Healthy seedlings | 11 | 2.116 | 2.316 | 0.882 | 0.141 | 0.240 |
| Diseased seedlings | 23 | 2.600 | 4.831 | 0.829 | 0.090 | 0.221 |
a
Source of bacteria or fungi from the rhizosphere of healthy and diseased P. mariana seedlings.