TABLE 3.

Identified keystone bacterial genera that affect the endophytic bacterial community across different rice cultivars.

	Nocardioides	Microvirga	Gaiella
Leaf length	−0.441**	−0.480**	−0.495**
α-diversity	0.655**	0.703**	0.709**
β-diversity	0.093*	0.105*	0.131*

**indicates significant difference at 0.01 level, *indicates significant difference at 0.05 level.