Supplementary table of : Management shapes the microbiome of plants from Genus Vaccinium

This is the supplementary table of the chapter 6 ABSTRACT: The genus Vaccinium, including blueberries and bilberries, comprises nutrient-rich crops of increasing relevance for sustainable agriculture. Although plant-associated microbiomes are key contributors to crop resilience under climate change, the relative roles of soil context, management intensity, and plant provenance in shaping Vaccinium-associated microbiomes remain poorly understood. Here, we used Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry) and Vaccinium myrtillus (European bilberry) as a model system to disentangle these effects by comparing wild bilberries with transplanted and cultivated blueberry individuals along a management gradient. We show that agricultural management exerts a dominant influence on belowground bacterial and fungal communities, partially overriding host species identity and historical microbial legacy. Cultivated blueberries exhibited significantly higher microbial diversity than wild references, consistent with management-driven increases in nutrient availability and niche heterogeneity. However, this diversification was accompanied by a functional shift toward saprotrophic-dominated fungal assemblages, whereas native and transplanted plants maintained stronger associations with endophytic taxa. Indicator Species Analysis revealed marked compartmentalization, with Penicillium and Solicoccozyma characterizing managed rhizospheres, and Podila and Serendipita associated with wild systems. Overall, our results demonstrate that management not only increases microbiome diversity but drives convergence toward functionally distinct microbial communities, with important implications for plant–microbe interactions and sustainable Vaccinium cultivation.Keywords: Blueberry; Bilberry; Wild relatives; rhizosphere microbiome; transplantation; functional traits; edaphic factors