Fig. 2
From: Manipulation in root-associated microbiome via carbon nanosol for plant growth improvements
CNS’s effect on diversity of root-associated microbiomes. A Alpha-diversity of bacterial and fungal communities in root compartments (rhizoplane and root endosphere) and soils (rhizosphere and bulk soils) across three developmental stages after CNS treatment. ANOVA with an LSD test (P < 0.05) indicated statistically significant differences between different groups, denoting by different letters. B Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordinations based on weighted UniFrac distance matrices depicting the distribution patterns of bacterial and fungal communities of all samples (n = 216). C Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordinations based on weighted UniFrac distance matrices depicting the distribution patterns of bacterial and fungal communities in each compartment niche (for each niche, n = 18). D Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordinations based on weighted UniFrac distance matrices depicting the distribution patterns of bacterial and fungal communities for each developmental stage (for each stage, n = 24). The relative contribution of different factors to community dissimilarity was tested with PERMANOVA. “T” represents the effect of the CNS treatment; “D” represents the effect of the developmental stage; “N” represents the effect of the compartment niche