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Table 2 Effect of endophytic yeast isolates on vegetative growth of tomato plants in natural soil and soil amended with neem cake in pots experiment—season I and II

From: Characterization of endophytic yeast and its suppressive effect on root rotting fungi of tomato under neem cake soil amendment

Treatments

Growth parameters

Shoot length

(cm)

Shoot weight

(g)

Root length

(cm)

Root weight

(g)

S-I

S-II

S-I

S-II

S-I

S-II

S-I

S-II

Control

22.93

19.35

4.05

3.88

11.49

14.63

0.95

0.19

Carbendazim (Cd)

23.56

18.9

5.27

3.6

16.68

17.24

1.88

1.74

Neem cake (NC) @ 1%

26.31

22.7

5.87

4.85

21.06

13.35

2.79

2.04

Cd + NC

26.68

23.75

5.47

3.49

15.81

15.5

3.07

2.03

Debaryomyces hansenii (Y-17)

37.07

25.5

7.35

5.47

23.8

15.6

3.72

1.04

Y-17 + NC

33.5

25.4

7.08

5.1

24.37

19.75

3.55

1.53

D. hansenii (Y-34)

37.73

28.64

7.99

6.24

23.75

19.98

4.0

1.92

Y-34 + NC

38.92

27.02

7.33

5.93

21.06

16.23

3.41

1.21

Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (Y-54)

31.4

27.16

7.58

5.78

26

19.35

3.66

2.76

Y-54 + NC

34.25

23.5

6.94

4.54

20.25

16.53

2.97

1.59

Meyerozyma guilliermondii (Y-62)

34.37

30.29

6.9

5.1

20.5

20.83

3.37

2.15

Y-62 + NC

40.5

29.38

8.05

5.13

25

21.63

3.86

1.57

LSD 0.05

6.4a

7.78a

0.99a

2.45a

3.82a

6.41a

0.91a

1.28a

  1. S-I, season I; S-II, season II
  2. aMean values in column showing differences greater than LSD values are significantly different at p < 0.05