FIGURE 5.

Potential “driver taxa” in the soil obtained from 2-year-old AG plants as determined in microbial co-occurrence networks between soils obtained from healthy and diseased AG plants. Node sizes are proportional to their scaled NESH (neighbor shift) score (a score identifying important microbial taxa of microbial association networks), and a node is colored red if its betweenness increases when comparing soil microbiomes associated with healthy and diseased plants. As a result, large red nodes denote particularly important driver taxa, and these taxa names are shown in red color. Green edges: association present only in healthy ginseng microbiomes; red edges: association present only in diseased plant microbiomes; blue edges: association present in both healthy and diseased plant microbiomes.