Table 4.

The 16S rDNA DGGE diversity index analysis.

Periods	Lines	The 16S rDNA DGGE diversity index (Mean ± SD)
		Simpson's index	Shannon index	Evenness	Brillouin index	McIntosh index
Tillering stage	CK	0.96±0.005a	4.92±0.054a	0.87±0.007a	4.19±0.039a	0.85±0.011a
	a1	0.96±0.003a	4.91±0.036a	0.88±0.004a	4.16±0.027a	0.86±0.006a
	a2	0.95±0.001a	4.8±0.0140a	0.87±0.000a	4.13±0.013a	0.84±0.003a
	a3	0.95±0.001a	4.84±0.023a	0.88±0.001a	4.12±0.032a	0.85±0.002a
	a4	0.95±0.001a	4.85±0.011a	0.87±0.002a	4.16±0.030a	0.85±0.002a
	a5	0.95±0.000a	4.81±0.025a	0.86±0.002a	4.16±0.020a	0.83±0.001a
	a6	0.95±0.003a	4.88±0.065a	0.87±0.007a	4.13±0.045a	0.84±0.007a
Elongation stage	CK	0.93±0.005a	4.44±0.119a	0.78±0.011a	3.80±0.111a	0.79±0.010a
	a1	0.94±0.030a	4.62±0.399a	0.85±0.068a	3.99±0.350a	0.83±0.064a
	a2	0.95±0.001a	4.70±0.032a	0.88±0.006a	4.08±0.025a	0.84±0.002a
	a3	0.93±0.008a	4.35±0.122a	0.83±0.023a	3.79±0.121a	0.80±0.015a
	a4	0.92±0.003a	4.15±0.056a	0.79±0.008a	3.61±0.058a	0.77±0.006a
	a5	0.95±0.002a	4.69±0.029a	0.86±0.005a	4.07±0.012a	0.84±0.005a
	a6	0.95±0.007a	4.75±0.043a	0.86±0.013a	4.07±0.016a	0.84±0.017a
Maturing stage	CK	0.92±0.008b	4.37±0.129ab	0.82±0.024b	3.77±0.104ab	0.78±0.015b
	a1	0.91±0.002b	4.32±0.027ab	0.82±0.005b	3.73±0.032ab	0.77±0.003b
	a2	0.90±0.006b	4.07±0.072bc	0.79±0.014b	3.53±0.067bc	0.75±0.010bc
	a3	0.90±0.003b	4.14±0.045bc	0.79±0.009b	3.59±0.040bc	0.74±0.006bc
	a4	0.91±0.001b	4.26±0.018ab	0.81±0.001b	3.68±0.016abc	0.77±0.002b
	a5	0.96±0.011a	4.63±0.137a	0.92±0.027a	4.05±0.124a	0.86±0.026a
	a6	0.86±0.005c	3.76±0.062c	0.75±0.013b	3.28±0.075c	0.68±0.007c

CK: control line FN95–1702; a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6: cry1Ac sugarcane lines; values in the column followed by the same letters mean no statistically significant (P < 0.05 level, N = 3).