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

Table 3

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

Plants	# of plants	Total sequences	Mean (SD) number of sequences/plants	# of species	Shannon diversity indices	Species represented by the most numerous sequences
Dmaize	4	39971	9993 (3729)	22	1.63	Fusarium spp. (78%); Gibberella spp. (9%); Ceratobasidium spp. (4%)
Cmaize	4	41806	10452 (5166)	22	2.32	Fusarium spp. (38%); Alternaria spp. (32%); Gibberella spp. (24%)
Dteosinte	4	29814	7454 (5276)	22	1.97	Fusarium spp. (53%); Cochliobolus spp. (14%); Podospora spp. (10%)
Cteosinte	4	36988	9247 (3183)	30	2.62	Fusarium spp. (38%); Alternaria spp. (26%); Phoma spp. (11%)
Total	16	148579	37145 (5275)	60	2.14	Fusarium spp. (51%); Alternaria spp. (16%); Gibberella spp. (9%)