Table 6.

Effects of bacterial inoculation and synthetic fertilization on leaf number (LN), plant height (PH), root length (RL), stem diameter (SD), shoot dry weight (SDW), and root dry weight (RDW) of tomato plant at 42 DAS.

	LN	PH (cm/plant)	RL (cm/plant)	SD (mm/plant)	SDW (g/plant)	RDW (g/plant)
C-0%NPK	2.00g ±0.00	6.03d ±0.55	3.56f ±0.55	1.50d ±0.50	0.007d ±0.00	0.012d ±0.01
S1-0%NPK	3.33f ±0.58	12.13c ±0.32	7.60e ±0.36	2.50c ±0.50	0.083d ±0.00	0.134c ±0.04
S2-0%NPK	3.00f ± 0.00	12.17c ±0.28	7.13e ± 0.32	2.50c ±0.50	0.067d ±0.01	0.107c ±0.04
M-0%NPK	3.33f ± 0.57	12.00c ±0.50	7.80e ±0.264	2.83c ±0.29	0.077d ± 0.01	0.146c ±0.06
C-50%NPK	5.00e ± 0.00	15.83b ±0.76	6.73e ±0.35	3.17c ±0.29	0.499c ±0.09	0.156c ±0.05
S1-50%NPK	8.00ab± 0.00	23.13a ±0.32	15.07b ± 0.66	5.83a ±0.29	0.907ab ± 0.07	0.405a ±0.03
S2-50%NPK	7.33 bc ± 0.57	23.83a ±0.76	13.93c ± 1.00	5.67a ±0.76	0.924ab ±0.02	0.408a ±0.09
M-50%NPK	8.33a± 0.57	22.83a ±0.28	16.50a ± 0.87	5.83a ±0.29	0.958a ±0.03	0.475a ±0.09
C-100%NPK	6.33d± 1.15	23.83a ±0.28	10.99d ±0.68	4.67b ±0.58	0.905ab ±0.00	0.270b ±0.03
S1-100%NPK	6.67cd ± 0.57	23.47a ±0.55	11.33d ± 0.57	4.83b ±0.29	0.855b ±0.11	0.303b ±0.02
S2-100%NPK	6.33d ± 0.57	23.67a ±0.76	11.33d ± 0.57	4.83b ±0.76	0.836b ±0.07	0.277b ±0.03
M-100%NPK	6.67cd± 0.57	23.30a ±1.12	11.00d ± 1.00	4.50b ±0.50	0.865ab ±0.10	0.267b ±0.05
Bacterial inoculation (BI)	***	***	***	***	***	***
Synthetic fertilization (SF)	***	***	***	***	***	***
BI*SF	**	***	***	***	***	**

C: uninoculated plants, S1: plants inoculated with strain E1, S2: plants inoculated with E3, M: plants inoculated with the mix of two strains, S1 and S2.

Each value is the average of three replicates. Different letters indicate significant differences according to the LSD test.

Significance: ** significant at p < 0.01; *** significant at p < 0.001.