Table 3. Proportion of bacteria recovered from Leptospermum scoparium that showed siderophore production activity on CAS agar and antagonist effect against Ilyonectria lirodendri and Neofusicoccum luteum.

Origin site	Siderophore production				Antagonistic against Ilyonectria liriodendri				Antagonistic against Neofusicoccum luteum
	-	+	++	+++	-	+	++	+++	-	+	++	+++
Island Hills Station	63.5	9.5	4.8	22.2 b	85.8	6.3	6.3	1.6 a	90.5	6.3	1.6	1.6 b
Travis Wetland	38.6	10.0	14.3	37.1 a	85.7	12.9	1.4	0.0 a	85.7	11.4	2.9	0.0 b
West Coast	23.7	13.6	32.2	30.5 a	76.3	20.3	0.0	3.4 a	61.0	15.3	6.7	17.0 a

The different letter on the last column indicates significantly different activity responses among the sites at p ≤0.05 according Mann-Whitney test. For siderophore production, (-): no clear zone, (+): clear zone less than 5 mm, (++): clear zone 10 mm > x > 5 mm diameter, and (+++): clear zone ≥ 10 mm in diameter; For antagonist effect, (-): no inhibition activity, (+): weak activity–fungal colony showing small indent around bacterial colony but mycelial growth still to the plate edge without visible inhibition zone, (++): moderate activity–fungal growth up to bacterial colony but restricted with inhibition zone < 1mm, (+++): strong activity–fungal growth restricted with inhibition zone > 1mm