Season, Irrigation, Leaf Age, and Escherichia coli Inoculation Influence the Bacterial Diversity in the Lettuce Phyllosphere
Figure 5
Bacterial diversity phyllosphere differs between season of planting.
The UPGMA dendrogram was made in QIIME using weighted UniFrac distance data between phyllosphere microbiota from 223 plants. Tree branches in blue correspond to plants from the E09 and E10 trials and red branches represent samples from the L09 and L10 trials. Clusters I and II were identified as two major sample groups. Relative sequence abundances of the top 21 taxonomic groups are shown in the order of sequence abundance. The heat map indicates a range of proportional sequence abundance in each sample (minimum: 0%; maximum: 87%).