Table 2.
Summary of the relative abundance (%) of core molecular Operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) that were assigned in plant tissue and soil, year one and year two in the sorghum-legume intercrop. The bold numbers illustrate abundance greater than 1%.
| Sorghum | Bambara Groundnut | Cowpea | Dry Bean | Soybean | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niche | Phylum | Core MOTUs | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 1 | Year 2 |
| Plant tissues | Ascomycota | Davidiellaceae sp. (Cladosporium) | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 9.5 | 6.2 | 3.0 | 0.7 |
| Didymellaceae sp. 1 (Phoma) | 29.8 | 8.6 | 31.8 | 12.1 | 24.2 | 31.3 | 28.4 | 14.3 | 37.4 | 3.9 | ||
| Didymellaceae sp. 2 (Epicoccum) | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 0.2 | ||
| Fusarium 2 | 5.6 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 11.3 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 5.8 | 33.1 | 7.6 | 15.3 | ||
| Unidentified | 12.9 | 9.0 | 20.9 | 2.4 | 25 | 11.4 | 51.1 | 7.4 | 45.7 | 4.9 | ||
| Basidiomycota | Cryptococcus | 3.5 | 4.9 | 1.5 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 0.4 | 13.9 | 0.2 | 2.3 | |
| Unidentified | Unidentified | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 12.6 | |
| Soil | Ascomycota | Davidiellaceae sp. (Cladosporium) | 0.3 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Didymellaceae sp. 1 (Phoma) | 4.3 | 2.4 | 15.6 | 2.3 | 16.7 | 1.6 | 7.6 | 5.4 | 3.1 | 1.6 | ||
| Didymellaceae sp. 2 (Epicoccum) | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||
| Fusarium 2 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 26.3 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 4.8 | 8.9 | 1.3 | 26.0 | 6.8 | ||
| Unidentified | 1.6 | 0.7 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 3.5 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||
| Basidiomycota | Cryptococcus | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 7.0 | 0.2 | 8.5 | 1.8 | 6.9 | 0.1 | 2.0 | |
| Unidentified | Unidentified | 61.2 | 17.3 | 7.3 | 7.9 | 6.7 | 14.5 | 23.9 | 16.7 | 12.3 | 14.5 | |
Numerical values in bold are relative abundances (RA) greater than 1%. Names are used as signed by the UNITE database.