Disease index Disease incidence
    May June Aug. Sep. May June Aug. Sep.
Soluble sugar content r 0.298 -0.333 -0.762 -0.706 0.550 -0.401 -0.838 -0.823
P 0.627 0.584 0.135 0.183 0.337 0.503 0.076 0.087
Total phenolic content r -0.272 -0.406 -0.393 -0.493 -0.495 -0.556 -0.617 -0.710
P 0.658 0.497 0.513 0.399 0.397 0.330 0.268 0.179
Note: r values represent the correlation coefficients between the contents of soluble sugar or total phenols of the pear leaves and scab resistance in different scab-resistant cultivars, positive values represent positive correlations, whereas negative values represent negative correlations; Pīš¤0.05 indicates significant correlations between the contents of soluble sugar or total phenols in the pear leaves of different scab-resistant cultivars and scab resistance
Table 5: The correlation between the contents of soluble sugar and total phenols of pear leaves and pear scab resistance among five scab-resistance ranks.