Soil Influences Colonization of Root-Associated Fungal Endophyte Communities of Maize, Wheat, and Their Progenitors

Table 1

Culture-dependent data of maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) and teosinte (Zea mays subsp. parviglumis).

Plants	# of plants	Total morphotypes	Mean (SD); number of morphotypes/plants	# of species	Shannon diversity; indices	Morphotypes represented by the most numerous sequences
Dmaize	7	8	1 (2)	4	0.90	Fusarium spp. (62%) Paraconiothyrium spp. (25%); Alternaria spp. (13%)
Cmaize	7	38	5 (2)	5	0.96	Fusarium spp. (54%); Alternaria spp. (37%); Exserohilum spp. (6%)
Dteosinte	7	5	1 (1)	3	0.50	Fusarium spp. (83%); Darksidea spp. (17%); N/A
Cteosinte	7	25	5 (3)	4	1.11	Alternaria spp. (56%); Fusarium spp. (12%); Chaetomium spp. (12%)
Total	28	44	19 (15)	9	0.87	Fusarium spp. (44%); Alternaria spp. (39%); Chaetomium spp. (4%)