Additional file 1 of Microbial inoculants modulate the rhizosphere microbiome, alleviate plant stress responses, and enhance maize growth at field scale

Additional file 1: Fig. S1 Rainfall during 2020 growing season and average rainfall from 1982 to 2010. Fig. S2 Root traits measured in roots of maize grown under different fertilization intensities. Fig. S3 Plant hormone concentrations measured in roots of maize grown under different fertilization intensities. Fig. S4 Principal component analysis of different plant physiochemical characteristics, stress-indicator phytohormones, shoot nutrient concentrations, and gene transcripts in leaves. Fig. S5 Root windows installed in the field. Fig. S6 Heatmap of the concentrations of low-molecular weight rhizosphere metabolites across three root zones of maize grown under different fertilization intensities and inoculation treatments. Fig. S7 Alpha-diversity plots of bacterial and fungal communities. Fig. S8 Clustering based on Hamming distance of Bacillus and Trichoderma ASVs. Fig. S9 The relative abundance of differential abundant siderophore-related genes and their association with bacterial genera. Fig. S10 Nonpareil curve for coverage of diversity for the metagenomic reads. Fig. S11 Rarefaction curves for diversity coverage through amplicon sequencing of 16S rRNA gene or ITS2 fragments.