Metaproteomic analysis of ratoon sugarcane rhizospheric soil

BMC Microbiology

Table 3 Diversity and evenness indices, and mean optical density of grouped substrates (six groups) at 96 h incubation time in different treatments

	Control soil	Plant cane soil	Ratoon cane soil	P values
Shannon’s diversity index	4.190±0.03c	4.393±0.01a	4.273±0.02b	0.0003
Shannon’s evenness	0.85±0.01b	0.89±0.01a	0.85±0.01b	0.001
Mean OD	0.20±0.06c	0.90±0.09a	0.42±0.06b	0.0001
Polymers	0.12±0.03b	0.37±0.07a	0.30±0.08a	0.008
Carbohydrates	0.18±0.02b	1.31±0.12a	0.28±0.03b	0.0001
Carboxylic acids	0.10±0.04b	0.70±0.15a	0.65±0.08a	0.0007
Amino acids	0.20±0.05c	0.81±0.11a	0.59±0.07b	0.0003
Amines	0.11±0.02b	1.16±0.08a	0.12±0.03b	0.0001
Phenolic compounds	0.84±0.05a	0.53±0.03b	0.39±0.02c	0.0001

Note: Data are means ± SD. Different letters in rows show significant differences determined by Tucky’s test (P ≤ 0.05).

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