TABLE 1.
Compartments | Bulk soil (%) | Significant difference | Rhizo sphere soil (%) | Significant difference | Root endo sphere (%) | Significant difference | Stem endo sphere (%) | Significant difference | Leaf endo sphere (%) | Significant difference | Flower endo sphere (%) | Significant difference | F(5,71) | p-Value | |
Phylum | Proteobacteria | 75.04 ±7.21 | ab | 74.32 ±10.63 | ab | 77.83 ±5.35 | a | 85.18 ±10.92 | A | 63.07 ±21.69 | b | 28.14 ±16.30 | C | 28.71 | 0.000 |
Cyanobacteria | 1.05 ±0.30 | c | 4.01 ±0.79 | c | 0.35 ±0.56 | c | 1.16 ±0.85 | c | 22.27 ±16.40 | b | 57.57 ±24.97 | A | 38.55 | 0.000 | |
Firmicutes | 8.63 ±4.48 | ab | 6.79 ±3.24 | b | 4.07 ±2.79 | ab | 8.71 ±4.88 | ab | 8.32 ±5.16 | ab | 11.90 ±10.84 | A | 1.88 | 0.111 | |
Actinobacteria | 6.58 ±2.84 | ab | 6.08 ±3.26 | abc | 8.58 ±4.32 | a | 3.22 ±2.70 | cd | 3.82 ±2.70 | bcd | 1.28 ±1.03 | D | 9.47 | 0.000 | |
Bacteroidetes | 1.81 ±1.35 | b | 1.81 ±1.23 | b | 3.55 ±0.69 | a | 0.76 ±0.69 | c | 0.63 ±0.41 | c | 0.35 ±0.26 | C | 22.40 | 0.000 | |
Genus | Rhizobium | 13.05 ±6.52 | ab | 15.92 ±2.90 | ab | 3.03 ±1.40 | b | 43.18 ±13.15 | a | 21.07 ±10.38 | ab | 4.83 ±5.85 | B | 2.93 | 0.019 |
Pseudomonas | 0.97 ±0.87 | c | 3.98 ±2.28 | c | 0.33 ±0.24 | c | 1.15 ±0.85 | c | 22.25 ±4.73 | b | 57.56 ±7.21 | A | 38.58 | 0.000 | |
Planococcus | 1.33 ±0.15 | b | 1.72 ±0.28 | b | 4.86 ±0.85 | b | 6.57 ±1.93 | ab | 1.86 ±0.56 | a | 2.52 ±0.67 | B | 4.97 | 0.001 | |
Bacillus | 0.99 ±0.37 | b | 0.91 ±0.59 | b | 0.68 ±0.12 | b | 1.90 ±0.56 | b | 1.58 ±0.57 | b | 5.91 ±1.58 | A | 6.46 | 0.000 | |
Sphingomonas | 1.08 ±0.24 | b | 0.91 ±0.13 | b | 0.60 ±0.15 | b | 3.98 ±1.17 | a | 1.05 ±0.26 | b | 2.76 ±1.39 | ab | 3.111 | 0.014 |