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) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).