Table 3.

Relative abundances of genera comprising more than 1.0% of genera either in each rhizosphere soil (Welsh onion, onion, or cucumber), or non-cultivated soil.

Genus	Welsh onion	Onion	Cucumber	Non-cultivated
Agrobacterium	0.3 ± 0.1 b	0.1 ± 0.2 b	1.0 ± 0.3 a	0.0 ± 0.0 b
Bacillus	1.7 ± 0.1 a	0.7 ± 0.3 b	2.3 ± 0.4 a	1.9 ± 0.4 a
Chitinophaga	0.2 ± 0.0 b	0.2 ± 0.2 b	1.1 ± 0.1 a	0.4 ± 0.3 b
Devosia	1.9 ± 0.1 ab	2.4 ± 0.6 a	2.4 ± 0.9 a	0.8 ± 0.2 b
Flavisolibacter	0.6 ± 0.3 b	0.5 ± 0.2 b	1.4 ± 0.0 a	0.4 ± 0.1 b
Flavobacterium	3.4 ± 0.3 a	1.7 ± 0.4 b	0.2 ± 0.2 c	0.4 ± 0.3 c
Kaistobacter	1.3 ± 0.3 a	1.5 ± 0.3 a	2.1 ± 0.9 a	2.1 ± 0.8 a
Methylibium	0.8 ± 0.1 b	1.8 ± 0.2 a	0.3 ± 0.3 bc	0.1 ± 0.1 c
Nitrospira	0.3 ± 0.1 b	0.1 ± 0.1 b	0.5 ± 0.0 b	1.2 ± 0.3 a
Novosphingobium	0.1 ± 0.1 b	0.0 ± 0.0 b	2.0 ± 0.6 a	0.3 ± 0.1 b
Opitutus	0.4 ± 0.1 b	0.1 ± 0.1 b	1.6 ± 0.5 a	0.2 ± 0.1 b
Pseudoxanthomonas	1.0 ± 0.3 a	0.8 ± 0.1 a	0.9 ± 0.3 a	0.0 ± 0.0 b
Rhodoplanes	0.6 ± 0.3 a	0.6 ± 0.1 a	0.6 ± 0.3 a	1.1 ± 0.3 a
Steroidobacter	0.5 ± 0.1 b	0.5 ± 0.1 b	1.4 ± 0.3 a	0.6 ± 0.2 b
Streptomyces	0.7 ± 0.5 b	1.2 ± 0.2 ab	1.1 ± 0.1 ab	1.8 ± 0.4 a
Thermomonas	1.1 ± 0.5 a	0.4 ± 0.2 ab	0.7 ± 0.2 ab	0.2 ± 0.0 b

Mean ± SD shown (n = 3). Different lowercase letters within a row indicate statistically significant differences (P < 0.05, Tukey’s test).