Improving the nematicidal potential of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Lysinibacillus sphaericus against the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita using protoplast fusion technique

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 4 Effect of bacterial strains on tomato plant growth parameters

Treatments	Shoot parameters		Root parameters
Treatments	Length (cm)	Fresh weight (g)	Dry weight (g)	Length (cm)
Fusant Bas8	33^a	13.51^a	3.93^a	19.33^a
B. amyloliquefaciens	28.25^ab	14.04^a	4.00^a	19.00^a
L. sphaericus	27.5^b	10.64^ab	2.19^b	17.75^ab
B. amyloliquefaciens + L. sphaericus	31^ab	8.60^b	1.51^ab	17.75^ab
Control (untreated)	30.5^ab	11.84^ab	2.24^b	16.5^b

Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different by Duncan’s multiple range test (P ≤ 0.05)