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. 2005 Nov;71(11):6571–6577. doi: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.6571-6577.2005

TABLE 3.

Survival of P. putida strains in agricultural, forest, and grassland soils under enriched conditions

Soil Survival of inoculated strain
S-313R PH18 SN34 SN36
Agricultural 0.083a ± 0.017b,1 0.122 ± 0.0202 0.075 ± 0.0101 0.084 ± 0.0191
Forest 0.096 ± 0.0161,2 0.114 ± 0.0201,2 0.102 ± 0.0132 0.116 ± 0.0251,2
Grassland 0.083 ± 0.0281,2 0.161 ± 0.0163 0.106 ± 0.0122 0.146 ± 0.0163
a

First-order decay rate of the bacterial population (day−1).

b

Confidence interval for the slope of the regression line (P = 0.05). Values with the same superscript number are not significantly different for P = 0.05.