Table 3.
Relative abundance (percent of total good-quality sequences) of the introduced bacteria in the root (R), rhizosphere (Rh), and bulk soil (BK) samples as affected by inoculation with the synthetic bacterial community.
| WAP | Treatment | R | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhizobium / Neorhizobium | Stenotrophomonas | Enterobacter | Ralstonia | ||
| 8 | Pre-inoculation | 8.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 16 | T0 | 2.25 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| T1 | 2.04 | 1.46 | 1.04 | 0.21 | |
| 20 | T0 | 15.37 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.00 |
| T1 | 3.15 | 0.03 | 3.25* | 0.23 | |
| WAP | Treatment | Rh | |||
| Rhizobium / Neorhizobium | Stenotrophomonas | Enterobacter | Ralstonia | ||
| 8 | Pre-inoculation | 3.42 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 16 | T0 | 1.58 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| T1 | 2.78 | 0.17* | 0.43 | 0.25 | |
| 20 | T0 | 3.67 | 0.01 | 0.11 | 0.00 |
| T1 | 3.46 | 0.14 | 0.33 | 0.13 | |
| WAP | Treatment | BK | |||
| Rhizobium / Neorhizobium | Stenotrophomonas | Enterobacter | Ralstonia | ||
| 8 | Pre-inoculation | 0.75 | 0.59 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 16 | T0 | 1.10 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 0.46 |
| T1 | 0.66 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 20 | T0 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| T1 | 0.37 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Values represent the average relative abundance. Asterisks (*) indicate a significant difference between treatments on the same harvesting date according to a nonparametric Mann–Whitney test (p = 0.05). Numbers in red indicate 0% relative abundance. WAP, weeks after planting.