Table 3B.

Significant differences in the relative abundance of fungal species (%) ± standard error between potting soil with and without 2% chitin (n = 5) and their possible functions reported in literature.

Phylum	Family	Genus	Treatment		Increase or decrease	Functions (reference)
			Control	2% chitin
Ascomycota	Cordycipitaceae	Lecanicillium	0.09 ± 0.05	1.85 ± 0.33	20x	PGP, chitin degradation, biocontrol and induced resistance (Goettel et al., 2008; Hirano et al., 2008; Ownley et al., 2010; Van Nam et al., 2014; Nguyen et al., 2015)
	Pseudorotiaceae	Pseudogymnoascus	0.96 ± 0.30	3.46 ± 0.26	4x	Biocontrol (Tagawa et al., 2010)
	Pseudorotiaceae	Pseudeurotium	81 ± 0.42	0.12 ± 0.02	0.07x	/
Zygomycota	Mortierellaceae	Mortierella	3.21 ± 1.73	58.13 ± 2.55	18x	Chitin degradation (Kim et al., 2008) and biocontrol (Tagawa et al., 2010)

PGP, Plant growth promotion. Species in bold mean a significant increase in the relative abundance in the chitin treatment as compared to the control treatment. Species underlined mean a significant decrease in the relative abundance in the chitin treatment as compared to the control treatment.