TABLE 2.

Spearman correlation test showing the relative abundance of endophytic bacterial phyla association with physical and chemical parameters.

Phylum	MDA	Chlorophyll A	Chlorophyll B	SOD	Water	Temperature
Acidobacteria	–0.265	–0.034	–0.113	–0.052	0.018	–0.121
Actinobacteria	0.205	0.284	0.353*	0.657***	−0.507***	0.631***
Bacteroidetes	–0.272	0.128	0.120	0.525***	–0.213	0.376*
Candidatus saccharibacteria	–0.056	0.030	–0.003	–0.054	0.146	0.052
Chloroflexi	−0.242**	–0.000	–0.059	–0.143	0.457**	−0.581***
Cyanobacteria	–0.387	–0.266	−0.313*	−0.356*	0.369*	−0.543***
Deinococcus–Thermus	–0.238	0.286	0.259	0.342*	–0.122	0.233
Firmicutes	0.740***	0.013	0.083	0.064	–0.125	0.122
Fusobacteria	–0.130	0.076	0.050	0.054	–0.086	0.186
Gemmatimonadetes	0.011	0.009	–0.012	–0.052	–0.106	0.103
Nitrospirae	–0.084	–0.012	–0.038	–0.085	–0.29	0.106
Proteobacteria	–0.468	–0.046	–0.097	–0.048	0.008	0.019
Verrucomicrobia	–0.113	–0.004	–0.034	–0.072	0.014	–0.236

Significant differences are indicated in bold.

*Indicates significant differences (P < 0.05);

**indicates significant differences (P < 0.01);

***indicated significant differences (P < 0.001).