Table 3.

Correlations between the relative abundance of Ralstonia and the relative abundance of Azospira, defense-related enzymes activity, and the relative expression levels of defense signaling marker genes in the inoculation groups.

	Ralstonia abundance
	Soil		Root
	r	p-value	r	p-value
Azospira	−0.517	0.089	−0.748	0.007**
SOD	−0.755	0.007**	−0.608	0.040*
POD	−0.315	0.318	−0.375	0.230
CAT	−0.648	0.023*	−0.655	0.021*
PPO	−0.573	0.055	−0.622	0.035*
PAL	−0.368	0.240	−0.371	0.235
PR1 a/c	−0.259	0.417	−0.587	0.049*
PR2	0.014	0.974	−0.238	0.457
EFE26	−0.350	0.266	−0.490	0.110
H1N1	−0.888	0.001**	−0.566	0.059
ACC Oxidase	−0.629	0.032*	−0.385	0.218

^* p< 0.05;

^** p< 0.01.