Fig. 3From: Combined application of N-fixing PGPB and rice straw mulch compensates N immobilization by straw, improving crop growthEffect of mulching and inoculation on soil bacterial community. The soil sampling used for the analysis was carried out at the end of the experiment in September 2021. (a) Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) of bacterial community composition. (b) Relative abundance of the top 30 bacterial genera. The star marks the genus Azotobacter inoculated in the treatments. Mulching, mulched treatments; non-mulching, non-mulched control treatments; SM700 and SM199, treatments inoculated with Azotobacter strains SM700 and SM199, respectively; non-inoculated, non-inoculated control treatmentsBack to article page