Fig. 3. The diversity of microbial community, and abundance of microbial population able to inoculate chickpea plant.
The experiment studied rhizosphere and endosphere microbiome at apical and basal roots of chickpea genotypes growing in five different soils. The presented data included Shannon index of (a) rhizosphere and (b) endosphere microbiome, (c) abundance of chickpea symbiotic rhizobia ASV relative to bulk soil, and (d) endospheric bacteria number estimated by the copy number of bacterial 16S rRNA gene. One early flowering (EF) and two late flowering (LF1 and LF2) chickpea genotypes were evaluated. The same lowercase letters indicated no significant differences (P < 0.05) between genotypes based on Tukey HSD post-hoc pairwise comparison test.