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Table 4.

Effect of microbial consortium on wheat under greenhouse after 90 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	53.67^j**±1.05	33.37^h**±1.70	4.51^j*±0.04	1.27^j**±0.23	33.93^h**±0.36	4.10^e±0.52	1.17^g**±0.02	6.76^j±0.91	54.33^l**±0.16
PSB	50.93^h**±1.77	29.17^g ± 0.40	4.33ⁱ±0.24	0.97^h*±0.06	30.19^g**±0.77	4.57^f±0.43	1.09^f**±0.03	6.47ⁱ±1.23	51.07^k**±0.17
KSB	49.73^g*±0.31	28.57^f±1.47	3.97^g ± 0.41	0.78^e±0.09	26.70^f**±10.67	3.90^d ± 0.25	1.06^f**±0.09	5.82^f±0.17	46.04ⁱ**±0.38
ZnSB	51.77ⁱ**±0.83	27.27^e±1.75	3.32^e±0.31	0.83^g ± 0.15	26.26^f**±0.94	6.12^h*±0.27	0.83^c**±0.03	4.90^b ± 0.12	34.04^e**±0.69
SSB	52.40ⁱ**±1.34	28.40^f±0.86	4.17^h ± 0.47	1.06ⁱ*±0.03	24.69^e**±0.23	4.45^f±0.44	1.05^f**±0.03	5.40^d ± 0.27	46.41^j**±0.89
NPK 100 %	50.77^h**±0.96	22.87^c±1.87	3.07^d ± 0.68	0.58^c±0.02	23.65^d**±1.23	5.16^g*±0.38	0.97^e**±0.01	6.22^h ± 0.02	39.19^h**±3.08
NPK 50 %	46.90^f*±2.03	21.50^b ± 1.22	3.33^e±0.31	0.51^b ± 0.04	22.91^d**±1.07	4.12^e±0.90	0.83^c**±0.05	5.21^c±0.55	36.82^g**±0.40
Urea 100 %	45.20^e±2.01	25.80^d ± 1.39	3.57^f±0.54	0.83^g ± 0.09	20.52^c*±0.49	3.68^c±0.20	0.88^d**±0.08	6.11^g ± 0.76	35.58^f**±2.50
Urea 50 %	42.77^d ± 1.02	22.50^c±0.54	2.71^c±0.29	0.66^d ± 0.05	19.36^b*±1.11	3.34^b ± 0.74	0.83^c**±0.06	5.47^d ± 0.55	25.32^b ± 0.58
DAP 100 %	41.50^c±0.86	27.27^e±1.75	3.17^d ± 0.60	0.80^f±0.17	23.40^d**±0.67	3.81^c±0.53	0.97^e**±0.01	5.68^e±0.59	33.85^d*±2.29
DAP 50 %	40.67^b ± 0.40	22.03^b ± 0.24	2.30^b ± 0.50	0.67^d ± 0.02	19.38^b*±0.31	3.46^b ± 0.42	0.77^b**±0.07	5.40^d ± 1.01	27.00^c±2.11
Control	39.33^a±0.74	19.57^a±1.27	1.92^a±0.44	0.40^a±0.09	14.46^a±0.82	2.02^a±0.74	0.30^a±0.01	4.00^a±0.22	22.79^a±1.57
LSD	0.79	0.62	0.13	0.03	0.81	0.15	0.04	0.11	0.08
SE	3.84	3.97	1.39	0.29	2.50	1.68	0.14	1.84	4.27
CD 5 %	6.91	7.14	2.50	0.52	4.49	3.02	0.25	3.31	7.66
CD 1 %	10.45	10.81	3.78	0.80	6.80	4.58	0.39	5.02	11.60

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 line.