Table 4. Differentially abundant predicted microbial enzyme commission (EC) numbers (at least ≥ 0.1% average relative abundance across all samples) by inoculum effect at 24 h of incubation¹⁾

Enzymes	EC number	Relative abundance (%)		SEM	Coefficient	p-value	q-value
		HWG	JBG
Site-specific DNA-methyltransferase (adenine-specific)	EC:2.1.1.72	0.576	0.496	0.0138	−0.0238	0.0003	0.0464
Beta-ketoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] synthase II	EC:2.3.1.179	0.222	0.192	0.0035	−0.0138	< 0.0001	0.0189
Uridine kinase	EC:2.7.1.48	0.164	0.182	0.0033	0.0088	0.0003	0.0497
2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidylyltransferase	EC:2.7.7.60	0.215	0.191	0.0042	−0.0101	0.0002	0.0416
Alpha-amylase	EC:3.2.1.1	0.149	0.087	0.0082	−0.0202	< 0.0001	0.0228
Phosphoribosyl-ATP diphosphatase	EC:3.6.1.31	0.174	0.157	0.0026	−0.0072	0.0001	0.0324
Tryptophan synthase	EC:4.2.1.20	0.346	0.318	0.0043	−0.0157	< 0.0001	0.0176

Statistical analysis was performed using MaAsLin2 with q = 0.05 as the cutoff.
HWG, Hanwoo inoculum-treated group; JBG, Jeju Black inoculum-treated group; ATP, adenosine triphosphate.