. 2023 Aug 5;23:210. doi: 10.1186/s12866-023-02941-7

Table 2.

Effect of S. marcescens (OK482790) inoculation, to soil or by seed coating on wheat’ shoots and roots height, fresh and dry weights, in comparison to uninoculated plants (Control). Data represents the means of 20 independent replica ± SD

	Shoot length	Root length	Shoot fresh wt	Root fresh wt	Shoot dry wt	Root dry wt
Control	10.19^b ± 0.24	5.29^c ± 0.27	0.040^b ± 0.0067	0.088^a ± 0.039	0.0068^c ± 0.0007	0.022^a ± 0.018
Seed coating	12.72^a ± 0.35	7.32^b ± 0.31	0.093^ab ± 0.0047	0.088^a ± 0.0047	0.0156^b ± 0.0007	0.024^a ± 0.0034
Soil inoculation	13.3^a ± 0.46	11.06^a ± 0.77	0.158^a ± 0.041	0.10^b ± 0.0046	0.0185^a ± 0.0009	0.024^a ± 0.0011
LSD at 0.05%	2.53	2.03	0.118	0.089	0.002	NS
NS: indicates no significance