FIG 5.

Phylogenetic placement of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) found in 40 different spontaneous carrot juice fermentations on a 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic tree of the Lactobacillus genus complex and bacterial community dynamics of six starter-culture fermentations. (A) Phylogenetic tree visualized as a cladogram. Branches on which an ASV could be mapped are colored according to the phylogenetic group to which they belong (shown in panel B). Black represents ASVs not classified to a phylogenetic group. Duplications in species names are the result of multiple 16S rRNA gene copies in that particular strain. (B) Number of ASVs per phylogenetic group. Results were filtered to keep only the maximum likelihood weight node for each ASV. (C) 16S rRNA gene sequencing (V4 region) of starter-culture fermentations using six different strains. Only the top 20 ASVs are shown; they are colored by their highest possible classified taxonomic rank. Sampling points are indicated with a dashed line.