Table 4.
Impact of biofertilisers on the quality parameters of grains in the rice variety Uma under ambient and elevated CO2 conditions.
| Treatments | Quality parameters | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbohydrate content (mg g-1) | Protein content (mg g-1) | Amylose content (%) | |||||||
| aCO2 | eCO2 | Mean (T) | aCO2 | eCO2 | Mean (T) | aCO2 | eCO2 | Mean (T) | |
| Control | 638.20f | 706.40d | 672.30 | 6.92d | 6.06e | 6.49 | 20.16 | 17.81 | 18.99 |
| Azolla | 686.30e | 738.26b | 712.28 | 7.61b | 6.81d | 7.21 | 21.27 | 19.95 | 20.61 |
| PGPR | 725.66c | 811.15a | 768.41 | 7.97a | 7.41c | 7.69 | 22.13 | 21.14 | 21.63 |
| AMF | 722.63c | 809.36a | 766.00 | 7.72b | 6.93d | 7.33 | 22.76 | 21.09 | 21.92 |
| Mean (C) | 693.20 | 766.29 | 7.56 | 6.80 | 21.58 | 20.00 | |||
| SE (m) (±) | T=2.201, C=1.556, T×C=3.112 | T=0.032, C=0.022, T×C=0.045 | T=0.194, C=0.137, T×C=0.275 | ||||||
| CD (0.05) | T=6.598, C=4.666, T×C=9.331 | T=0.095, C=0.067, T×C=0.134 | T=0.583, C=0.412, T×C=NS | ||||||
Small letters mean significant levels.