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. 2018 Jun 4;9:1133. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01133

Table 1.

Total phenolics and root fresh weight of soybean and tomato inoculated with different microbiomes from the rhizosphere of different donor crops or bulk soil, and uninoculated control (different letters in a column indicate significant differences in Tukey’s test).

Source of inoculated microbiome Tomato plants (n = 10)
Soybean plants (n = 12)
Total phenolics1 Root fresh weight (g)
Total phenolics1 Root fresh weight (g) in nematodes side
Microbiome side Nematodes side
Bulk soil 1.63 ± 0.09b 0.70 ± 0.23b 0.49 ± 0.25a 1.80 ± 0.12b 0.54 ± 0.23a
Host rhizosphere 1.75 ± 0.10a 1.59 ± 0.62a 0.84 ± 0.49a 1.85 ± 0.08b 0.66 ± 0.15a
Maize rhizosphere 1.64 ± 0.05b 0.97 ± 0.24b 0.64 ± 0.27a 1.94 ± 0.07a 0.69 ± 0.15a

1In roots on the microbiome side (mg gallic acid equivalent per gram root).