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Table 2.

Effect of microbial consortium on wheat under open field conditions after 45 days.

Treatments	Shoot length (cm)	Root length (cm)	Fresh weight (g)	Dry weight (g)	Chlorophyll (mg g⁻¹)	Carotenoids (g L⁻¹)	Phenolics (μg g⁻¹)	Flavonoids (μg g⁻¹)	Sugar (μg g⁻¹)
MC	82.13^j**±0.61	18.23^j**±0.84	90.40^m**±1.70	10.16^l**±0.16	62.46^j**±0.43	6.49^j±0.70	1.75^h**±0.05	7.08^j**±0.45	50.63^h**±0.94
PSB	76.50^h**±1.19	17.27ⁱ**±0.95	82.20^l**±1.88	9.33^k**±1.36	59.02ⁱ*⁸±0.49	6.13ⁱ±0.43	1.39^f**±0.02	6.67^h*±0.04	33.89^e**±0.16
KSB	77.40ⁱ**±1.53	17.20ⁱ**±1.21	79.13^k**±2.61	8.77^j**±0.24	58.04ⁱ**±0.35	5.87^h ± 0.71	1.28^e**±0.03	6.91ⁱ*±0.65	35.81^f**±0.38
ZnSB	76.23^h**±0.69	16.20^h*±1.06	72.83^j**±2.72	8.25ⁱ**±0.14	58.87ⁱ**±1.24	5.60^g ± 1.24	1.55^g*⁸±0.04	6.71^h*±0.13	43.15^g**±0.47
SSB	76.87^h**±1.35	15.37^g*±1.44	69.13ⁱ**±1.48	8.19ⁱ**±0.59	57.93ⁱ**±0.11	6.00^h ± 0.28	1.29^e*±0.02	6.31^g*±0.06	33.51^e**±0.53
NPK 100 %	72.80^g**±1.42	14.13^f±0.45	63.17^h**±1.44	7.47^h**±0.12	49.26^h**±0.39	5.54^f±0.16	1.13^d**±0.09	6.28^g*±0.05	31.70^d**±0.96
NPK 50 %	72.17^f**±0.25	13.87^f±0.74	61.30^g*±2.13	7.18^g**±0.01	48.07^g**±1.03	5.44^f±0.71	1.09^d**±0.01	6.14^f±0.39	29.11^b**±0.35
Urea 100 %	71.13^e**±0.74	13.30^e±0.54	57.63^f**±0.31	6.40^f**±0.09	44.81^f**±1.53	5.16^e±0.34	1.04^c*±0.05	5.95^e±0.24	30.40^c**±0.60
Urea 50 %	70.93^e**±2.89	12.53^d ± 0.86	56.47^e**±2.05	6.11^e**±0.25	40.98^e**±0.45	5.12^e±0.48	1.01^c*±0.03	5.68^d ± 0.01	28.78^b**±0.23
DAP 100 %	70.03^e**±2.36	12.13^d ± 0.76	54.73^d**±1.07	5.92^e**±0.54	36.00^d**±1.10	4.60^d ± 0.45	0.90^b ± 0.03	5.72^d ± 0.00	29.81^c**±0.40
DAP 50 %	65.00^d**±0.62	10.60^c±0.45	53.70^d*±80.54	5.08^d**±0.10	33.22^c*±0.59	4.07^c±1.04	0.81^b ± 0.08	5.45^c±0.23	29.39^b**±0.07
K100 %	57.23^c*±0.69	10.27^c±0.53	45.27^c*±2.39	4.40^c±0.17	33.19^c*±2.77	3.97^c±1.88	0.85^b ± 0.06	5.40^c±0.17	29.74^c**±0.59
K 50 %	54.87^b ± 0.29	9.20^b ± 0.83	38.90^b ± 2.62	3.86^b ± 0.63	31.48^b ± 0.77	3.11^b ± 0.18	0.87^b ± 0.03	5.02^b ± 0.44	28.51^b**±0.55
Control	47.20^a±2.77	8.60^a±1.06	28.43^a±0.98	2.49^a±0.28	27.10^a±0.26	2.31^a±0.18	0.68^a±0.04	4.78^a±0.15	22.80^a±0.76
LSD	1.30	0.40	2.20	0.28	1.19	0.15	0.04	0.09	0.90
SE	4.64	3.13	6.39	1.25	3.07	2.34	0.15	0.80	1.86
CD 5 %	8.23	5.54	11.32	2.21	5.44	4.14	0.26	1.42	3.30
CD 1 %	12.31	8.29	16.93	3.31	8.15	6.20	0.40	2.14	4.95

MC: Rahnella aquatilis EU-A3Rb1, Erwinia aphidicola EU-A2RNL1, Brevibacillus brevis EU-C3SK2, and Bacillus mycoides EU-WRSe4; PSB: R. aquatilis EU-A3Rb1; KSB: E. aphidicola EU-A2RNL1; ZnSB: B. brevis EU-C3SK2; SSB: B. mycoides EU-WRSe4.

[Numerical values are mean ± Standard deviation of mean (SD) of three independent observations].

Common superscript code on mean values indicate the non-significant differences among derivatives as based on unpaired Student t-test at p < 0.05. On the other hand, different superscript indicates significant differences among lines.