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Table 4.

Microbial diversity index of Panax ginseng soil calculated from DGGE fingerprints and BIOLOG data

Soil samples	Analysis of microbial diversity¹⁾
Analysis by PCR-DGGE method						Analysis by BIOLOG method
Bacterial diversity			Fungal diversity			Shannon index (H′)	Substrate evenness (E)	Simpson's index (D_s)
Shannon index (H′)	Substrate evenness (E)	Simpson's index (D_s)	Shannon index (H′)	Substrate evenness (E)	Simpson's index (D_s)
R0	3.82 ± 0.009^a,b	0.98 ± 0.001^b	0.98 ± 0.001^a,b	2.63 ± 0.009^c	0.99 ± 0.000^a,b	0.94 ± 0.001^a,b	3.06 ± 0.02^c	0.98 ± 0.004^b,c	0.927 ± 0.012^b
R1	3.84 ± 0.009^a	0.97 ± 0.000^d	0.98 ± 0.000^a,b	2.27 ± 0.006^e	0.99 ± 0.000^e	0.93 ± 0.002^a,b	2.89 ± 0.02^d	0.99 ± 0.008^a,b	0.928 ± 0.002^b
R2	3.80 ± 0.007^b	0.96 ± 0.000^f	0.97 ± 0.000^d	2.61 ± 0.012^c	0.99 ± 0.000^c,d	0.94 ± 0.001^d	2.92 ± 0.03^d	1.00 ± 0.012^a	0.926 ± 0.003^b
R4	3.62 ± 0.015^e	0.97 ± 0.000^e	0.98 ± 0.001^b	2.68 ± 0.009^b	0.99 ± 0.001^d,e	0.94 ± 0.002^b	3.15 ± 0.01^b	0.98 ± 0.004^b	0.951 ± 0.001^a
R2 + 2	3.73 ± 0.015^c	0.97 ± 0.001^c	0.97 ± 0.000^c	2.36 ± 0.006^d	0.99 ± 0.001^e	0.93 ± 0.000^c	3.21 ± 0.01^a	0.96 ± 0.003^c	0.954 ± 0.001^a
R3 + 3	3.69 ± 0.009^d	0.97 ± 0.001^d	0.97 ± 0.000^c	2.37 ± 0.009^d	0.99 ± 0.001^c	0.94 ± 0.001^c	3.13 ± 0.01^b	0.98 ± 0.003^b,c	0.949 ± 0.001^a
RL-07	3.68 ± 0.009^d	0.98 ± 0.000^a	0.97 ± 0.001^c	2.91 ± 0.003^a	0.10 ± 0.001^a	0.95 ± 0.001^a	3.16 ± 0.02^b	0.98 ± 0.005^b,c	0.949 ± 0.001^a
RL-03	3.81 ± 0.003^a,b	0.99 ± 0.001^a	0.98 ± 0.000^a	2.92 ± 0.009^b	0.99 ± 0.001^b	0.94 ± 0.001^c	3.25 ± 0.01^a	0.97 ± 0.002^b,c	0.957 ± 0.001^a

LSR; PCR-DGGE, polymerase chain reaction and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis

¹⁾

The letters indicate tested with Shortest Significant ranges (SSR) at p = 0.05 of different treatments. Different letters indicate a significant difference at p < 0.05 level