Table 4.
Pearson’s correlation coefficients for the percentage root length colonization of dark septate endophytic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal variables in tomato under drought stress (n = 9)
| Fungal parameters | Dark septate endophytic fungia | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RLDSH | RLDMH | RLDMS | DTC | |
| Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungib | ||||
| RLH | 0.011 | 0.354 | 0.204 | 0.157 |
| RLHC | − 0.103 | 0.000 | 0.354 | 0.010 |
| RLA | 0.378 | 0.533 | 0.185 | 0.472 |
| RLAC | − 0.145 | 0.316 | 0.274 | 0.048 |
| RLV | 0.466 | 0.438 | 0.000 | 0.466 |
| ATC | 0.089 | 0.400 | 0.300 | 0.250 |
aRLDSH, RLDMH, RLDMS and DTC, root length containing dark septate fungal hyphae, moniliform hyphae, microsclerotia and total colonization respectively
bRLH, RLHC, RLA, RLAC, RLV and ATC, root length containing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae, hyphal coils, arbuscules, arbusculate coils, vesicles and total colonization respectively