moderately significantP = 0.029
The EAA of pathogenic Streptomyces exhibited extremely significant and positive correlations with the txtAB gene copy number (Spearman, ρ = 0.88, P = 0.0008) and scab severity level (Spearman, ρ = 0.89, P = 0.0005), but there were only moderately significant positive relationships between the relative abundance of pathogenic Streptomyces and txtAB gene copy number (Spearman, ρ = 0.68, P = 0.029) and scab severity level (Spearman, ρ = 0.66, P = 0.036).