Shannon and Chao1 indices showed consistently higher alpha diversity in healthy plants, with differences ranging from non-significant in root-surrounding soil to significant in the rhizosphere and highly significant in the endosphere, indicating that bacterial wilt disrupts bacterial diversity most profoundly closer to the root interior ( Figure 1C ).
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Bacterial wilt pathogen induced spatial shifts of root-associated microbiome and metabolome of potatoes.
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