Table 2.
Pairwise PERMANOVA analyses of dominant and rare bacterial (A) and fungal (B) communities based on Bray–Curtis and Jaccard measures of square-root transformed relative abundances of plant bacterial communities under different treatments (snap frozen, ice incubation and air dry).
| (A) Bacterial Community | (B) Fungal Community | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dom.bray | Dom.jac | Rare.bray | Rare.jac | Dom.bray | Dom.jac | Rare.bray | Rare.jac | |
| Kangaroo Leaf | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD |
| Rhodes Leaf | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD |
| Wallaby Leaf | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD |
| Lucerne Leaf | Ice ≠ Dry | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD |
| Cotton Leaf | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD |
| Cotton Stem | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD |
| Cotton Root | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD | NSD |
Dom, Dominant; Bray, Bray–Curtis; Jac, Jaccard; NSD, no significant difference. Significant results (P < 0.05) highlighted with bold.