Table 7.

Result of three-way MANOVA for the PC1 and PC2 based on the data for all sampling days.

PC scores	Source of variation	df	Sum of squares	Mean squares	Variance explained (%)	F	P
PC1	Strain (S)	1	2.79	2.79	<1	8.9	P < 0.050
	Concentration (C)	2	4.15	2.08	<1	6.7	P < 0.050
	Time (T)	4	489.69	122.42	92	395.0	P < 0.001
	S × C	2	2.47	1.24	<1	3.9	P < 0.050
	S × T	4	3.00	0.75	<1	2.4	P = 0.058
	C × T	8	4.11	0.51	<1	1.7	P = 0.127
	S × C × T	8	5.86	0.73	1	2.4	P < 0.050
PC2	Strain (S)	1	0.00	0.00	<1	0.0	P = 0.989
	Concentration (C)	2	0.76	0.38	<1	0.2	P = 0.797
	Time (T)	4	152.52	38.13	54	22.7	P < 0.001
	S × C	2	2.28	1.14	<1	0.6	P = 0.512
	S × T	4	1.51	0.38	<1	0.2	P = 0.924
	C × T	8	12.47	1.56	4	0.9	P = 0.501
	S × C × T	8	9.42	1.18	3	0.7	P = 0.690

The effects in bold are significant at P < 0.05.