Table 7.

Correlation coefficients between antibacterial activities of the cultivation supernatant and the lipopeptide contents

	Pearson correlation coefficient	Kendall correlation coefficient	Spearman correlation coefficient
Iturin	0.570	0.597*	0.740*
Fengycin	0.695*	0.559*	0.726*
Surfactin	−0.100	0.078	0.033
Total lipopeptide	0.705*	0.559*	0.726*

Test of significance by two-tailed

*p < 0.05