Table 3. Correlation between plant growth indices, genera and fungal pathogens.

Itersonilia and Dioszegia are the fungal genera, and other genera are the bacterial genera. PW, plant weight; RL, root length; and RD, root diameter.

Genera	Method	PW	RL	RD
Massilia	Spearman	0.93**	0.88**	0.92**
Ramlibacter	Spearman	0.90**	0.77*	0.85**
Methylotenera	Spearman	0.73*	0.80**	0.82**
Anaeromyxobacter	Spearman	0.94**	0.88**	0.96**
Lysobacter	Spearman	0.90**	0.73*	0.85**
Itersonilia	Spearman	0.92**	0.91**	0.90**
Dioszegia	Spearman	0.90**	0.83**	0.87**
Fungal pathogens	Pearson	0.78*	0.73*	0.75*

Note:

* and ** represent significance at P < 0.05 and 0.01, respectively.