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. 2016 Jan 5;6:18837. doi: 10.1038/srep18837

Table 5. Correlations (r) among physical and chemical characteristics in mineral growing medium for cultivating eggplants, with hairy roots syndrome (RWS, n = 10).

  Humidity pH Conductivity Ammonium-N P Ca Mg Na Agrobacterium sp. CFU
Conductivity   0.949** (3)              
Nitrogen-N   −0.907** (2)              
Ammonium-N   0.876** (2)              
P   0.964** (3) 0.960** (3)           0.995** (2)
K 0.887** (3)     −0.899** (2) 0.893** (2)        
Ca −0.952** (2)       0.958** (2)       0.953** (2)
Mg −0.905** (2)       0.953** (2) 0.990** (2)   0.998*** (2) 0.934** (2)
Sulphate   0.913** (3) 0.912** (2)     0.926** (3)     0.974** (3)
Na −0.918** (2)       0.955** (2) 0.993** (2)     0.939** (2)
Chloride     0.901** (2)            
Fe   −0.907** (2)   −0.898** (2)          
Agrobacterium sp. CFU −0.883** (2)       0.995** (2) 0.953** (2) 0.963** (3) 0.934** (2) 0.939** (2)  
Total CFU −0.907** (2)       0.983** (2) 0.991** (2) 0.915** (3) 0.991** (2) 0.994** (2) 0.971** (2)

In parenthesis, the time point when the correlation was observed. ***P < 0.0001, **P < 0.05.