Research Article

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

Table 4

Culture-independent data of Triticum aestivum subsp. aestivum and Triticum monococcum subsp. monococcum.

Plants # of plants Total sequences Mean (SD) number of sequences/plants # of species Shannon diversity indicesSpecies represented by the most numerous sequences

Daestivum 4 15978 3995 (1840) 118 2.42Fusarium spp. (28%)
Gibberella spp. (37%)
Phoma spp. (9%)

Caestivum 4 17890 4473 (1970) 112 2.48Periconia spp. (38%)
Fusarium spp. (17%)
Alternaria spp. (11%)

Dmonococcum 4 17637 4410 (2866) 89 2.42Fusarium spp. (26%)
Alternaria spp. (18%)
Embellisia spp. (23%)

Cmonococcum4164224106 (1258)1182.46Fusarium spp. (57%)
Alternaria spp. (8%)
Cercophora spp. (7%)

Total166792716982 (926) 2482.45Fusarium spp. (31%)
Alternaria spp. (12%)
Gibberella spp. (12%)