Effects of sweet potato intercropping in banana orchard on soil microbial population diversity

Annals of Microbiology

Table 1 Quantity and diversity index of the bacterial community in the soil in sweet potato intercropping and monoculture in a banana orchard

Treatment	Number of colonies (pieces)	Ace index	Chao1 index	Shannon index
May/A	511.67±14.22Aa	1870.39±25.71Aa	1861.28±50.34Aa	9.29±0.03Aa
May/B	397.67±17.62Bb	1458.26±54.62Bb	1478.19±55.27Bb	7.99±0.13Bb
July/A	476.00±2.65Aa	1859.18±12.28Aa	1911.12±43.57Aa	9.51±0.11Aa
July/B	451.00±34.18Aa	1748.65±41.78Ab	1719.86±95.24Ab	9.16±0.15Ab
Sep/A	484.67±18.15Aa	1874.71±16.35Aa	1907.80±27.12Aa	9.45±0.04Aa
Sep/B	435.00±15.59Ab	1570.61±95.21Bb	1624.03±66.76Bb	8.61±0.04Bb

Samples were taken in May, July, and September. May/A = Intercropping treatment in May. May/B = Monoculture treatment in May. July/A = Intercropping treatment in July. July/B = Monoculture treatment in July. Sep/A = Intercropping treatment in September. Sep/B = Monoculture treatment in September. Different lowercase letters and uppercase letters indicate that there are significant differences between the two treatments in the same month at the levels of P < 0.05 and P < 0.01, respectively

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