Research Article

Linking Bacterial Endophytic Communities to Essential Oils: Clues from Lavandula angustifolia Mill

Table 2

Intragenus diversity analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence identity; mean identity of all versus all 16S rRNA gene sequences (for each genus); mean distance (Kimura 2 parameter); number of pairwise comparisons of 16S sequences with identity >97%, considered as threshold of species identity (in brackets the total number of comparisons and the percentage); number of OTU with at least 1 pairwise comparison with identity >97%.

GenusNumber of isolatesMean identity among OTU (%)Mean distance among OTUNumber of pairwise comparisons with identity >97%Number of OTU with identity >97%

Pseudomonas 17294.250.0133840 (14878, 25.8%)170
Bacillus 4793.040.027329 (1128, 29%)46
Rhizobia4698.610.016952 (1081, 88%)46
Stenotrophomonas 3795.340.023415 (703, 59%)37
Microbacterium 3095.000.059120 (465, 25%)29
Pantoea 2686.950.12624 (351, 6.8%)7