Fig. 1. The effect of chickpea genotype, soil type, and root segment on microbial composition in the rhizosphere and endosphere.
Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis based on Bray-Curtis distance was conducted to show the microbiome composition in (a) bulk soil and rhizosphere, and (b) endosphere. Bray–Curtis distance (c) between apical and basal zone of the root, and (d) between soils were calculated in the rhizosphere and endosphere. One early flowering (EF) and two late flowering (LF1 and LF2) chickpea genotypes were studied. The same lowercase letters indicated no significant differences (P < 0.05) between genotypes based on Tukey HSD post-hoc pairwise comparison test.