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Table 7 Thirty days after inoculation: shoot and root measurements of alfalfa plants under different treatments

From: Influence of Pseudomonas fluorescens mutants produced by transposon mutagenesis on in vitro and in vivo biocontrol and plant growth promotion

No.

Treatment

Shoot length (cm)

Root length (cm)

Fresh weight (mg)

Dry weight (mg)

1

Isolate 52

10.3 c*

5.0 cd

0.8 ef

0.5 ef

2

Mutant 52-12

16.3 a

8.3 a

1.6 a

0.9 a

3

Mutant 52-22

9.0 c

4.3 d

0.9 e

0.5 ef

4

Isolate 45

14.3 ab

7.7 a

1.3 cd

0.7 cd

5

Mutant 45-19

16.7 a

8.0 a

1.4b c

0.7 bc

6

Mutant 45-20

16.0 a

8.0 a

1.3 d

0.6 ed

7

Rh-52

12.0 bc

5.3 bcd

0.7 g

0.4f g

8

Rh-52-12

17.0 a

8.3 a

1.5 ab

0.8 a

9

Rh-52-22

14.3 ab

6.0 abcd

1.5 b

0.7 fcd

10

Rh-45

17.3 a

8.3 a

1.6 d

0.9 ed

11

Rh-45-19

16.0 a

7.7 a

1.5 b

0.8 ab

12

Rh-45-20

15.3 ab

6.7 abc

0.8 f

0.4 fg

13

Rh

0.0 d

0.0 e

0.0 h

0.0 fh

14

Seeds

10.7 c

6.0 abcd

0.8 f

0.3 g

  1. Seeds (Control 1) not inoculated with any microbe; Rh (Control 2) only inoculated with Rhizoctonia solani
  2. *Significant at the 0.01 probability level