Table 3.

Pearson correlations between F. culmorum growth in a fungistasis bioassay^a and microbial markers (general bacterial and actinobacterial 16S rRNA T-RFs and PLFAs) from six experimental field sites with no-till and conventional tillage treatments^b

Microbial marker	Soil depth (cm)	Pearson correlation coefficient (r)
Actinobacterial 16S rRNA HhaI T-RFs (bp)
218	0–5	−0.51
447	0–5	−0.42
449	0–5	−0.48
Bacterial 16S rRNA HaeIII T-RFs (bp)
54	0–5	−0.42
55	0–5	−0.42
75	0–5	−0.57*
77	0–5	−0.44
192	0–5	0.43
239	0–5	−0.45
297	0–5	0.41
Phospholipid fatty acid marker
Originating from bacteria
i14:0	0–5	−0.43
i15:0	0–5	−0.50
i16:0	0–5	−0.49
16:1ω7t	0–5	−0.41
ai17:0	0–5	−0.48
p10-19:0	0–5	−0.54*
Sum p10-17:0 + p10-19:0 (Actinobacteria)	0–5	−0.51*
Originating from fungi
18:2ω6	0–5	−0.89***
16:1ω5(AMF)	0–5	−0.63***
Others
14:0	0–5	−0.43
15:0	0–5	−0.50
16:1	0–5	−0.65**
16:0	0–5	−0.66*
17:1	0–5	−0.45
17:0	0–5	−0.62**
18:0	0–5	−0.75***
Sum PLFAs (biomass indicator)	0–5	−0.70***

^aSee Fig. 3B.

^bCorrelations higher than 0.4 or lower than −0.4 are shown.

^***, significance value of <0.02;

^**, significance value of <0.05;

^*, significance value of <0.10.