Table 5.
Effect of three concentrations of tebuconazole on biological and chemical properties of greengram plants grown in soil inoculated with the P. aeruginosa strain PS1 and without bio-inoculant.
Treatments | Dose rate (μg kg−1 soil) | Leghaemoglobin content [mM (g f.m.)−1] | Chlorophyll content (mg g−1) | N content (mg g−1) |
P content (mg g−1) |
Seed yield (g plant−1) | Seed protein (mg g−1) | ||
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Root | Shoot | Root | Shoot | ||||||
Un-inoculated | Control | 0.08 | 0.82 | 36 | 50 | 0.27 | 0.36 | 7.4 | 261 |
100 | 0.07 | 0.75 | 29 | 41 | 0.21 | 0.29 | 4.8 | 246 | |
200 | 0.05 | 0.72 | 25 | 37 | 0.18 | 0.26 | 4.3 | 244 | |
300 | 0.04 | 0.70 | 27 | 35 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 3.8 | 241 | |
Inoculated | Control | 0.09 | 0.96 | 48 | 69 | 0.35 | 0.48 | 12.7 | 272 |
100 | 0.08 | 0.84 | 36 | 56 | 0.30 | 0.39 | 9.2 | 257 | |
200 | 0.06 | 0.80 | 31 | 51 | 0.26 | 0.37 | 8.5 | 250 | |
300 | 0.05 | 0.75 | 29 | 45 | 0.21 | 0.35 | 7.8 | 246 | |
LSD | 0.005 | 0.04 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.3 | 2.5 | |
F value | Inoculation (df = 1) | 326⁎ | 7.2⁎ | 363⁎ | 47.3⁎ | 771.7⁎ | 1155⁎ | 265.5⁎ | 19⁎ |
Fungicide (df = 3) | 8.7⁎ | 1.1 | 201.9⁎ | 35.1⁎ | 347.7⁎ | 74.7⁎ | 32.7⁎ | 11⁎ | |
Inoculation × fungicide (df = 3) | 31.5⁎ | 0.4 | 50.1⁎ | 14.5⁎ | 76.4⁎ | 119.5⁎ | 20.9⁎ | 3.5⁎ |
Values are mean of three replicates where each replicate constituted three plants pot−1.
Significantly different from the control at p ⩽ 0.05; (g.f.m.)−1 = (gram fresh biomass)−1.