Table 1.
Most abundant bacterial genera (%) based on 16S rRNA sequence analysis in the phyllosphere of A. thaliana variants.
| Genusa | WT | hol1 | HOL1-OX |
|---|---|---|---|
| Methylobacterium | 80.8 ± 3.8 | 89.4 ± 6.7 | 87.0 ± 4.2 |
| Sphingomonas | 6.5 ± 1.2 | 1.5 ± 1.7 | 5.0 ± 0.2 |
| Rhodococcus | 2.9 ± 2.9 | 2.3 ± 0.2 | 4.5 ± 3.2 |
| Nocardioides | 1.4 ± 0.8 | 0.7 ± 0.8 | 0.2 ± 0.2 |
| Sphingobium | 1.1 ± 0.8 | 0.4 ± 0.1 | 0.7 ± 0.1 |
| Pseudonocardia | 0.8 ± 0.3 | 0.4 ± 0.2 | 0.4 ± 0.1 |
| TM7b | 0.5 ± 0.3 | 0.4 ± 0.3 | 0.1 ± 0.0 |
| Aeromicrobium | 0.4 ± 0.2 | 0.4 ± 0.3 | 0.8 ± 0.6 |
| Microbacterium | 0.2 ± 0.1 | 0.6 ± 0.6 | 0.2 ± 0.2 |
aGenera with average abundance ≥ 0.5% in at least one of the 3 A. thaliana variants.
bAll TM7-associated sequences were found within a single OTU.