. 2014 Oct 15;4(6):665–668. doi: 10.1007/s13205-014-0259-0

Table 1.

t test analysis depicting the effect of psychrophilic diazotroph Pseudomonas migulae strain S10724 on mung bean under net house conditions after 60 days of germination

Treatment	In vitro seed germination assay		Pot trial data
Treatment	% germination of the seeds		Pot trial data
	12 °C^a	25 °C^a	Shoot length (cm)	Root length (cm)^a	Plant fresh weight (g plant⁻¹)^a	Plant dry weight (g plant⁻¹)^a	Chlorophyll content (mg g⁻¹ fr. wt)^a	Nitrate reductase activity (mmol NO₂ g⁻¹ fr. wt h⁻¹)^a
Control	30 ± 0.51 (6)^b	70 ± 0.26 (3)^b	7.22 ± 0.84	5.67 ± 0.65	0.44 ± 0.13	0.19 ± 0.43	0.40 ± 0.07	0.25 ± 0.16
P. migulae S10724	40 ± 0.32 (6)^b	90 ± 0.12 (3)^b	13.26 ± 0.55 (45.6)^c	10.36 ± 1.02 (45.3)^c	0.86 ± 0.21 (48.8)^c	0.59 ± 0.61 (67.79)^c	0.69 ± 0.16 (42)^c	1.27 ± 0.16 (80.3)^c
f value	3.18	5.35	1.29	7.28	7.97	5.86	5.11	1.18
t value	5.21	4.01	5.62	3.84	5.61	5.39	3.76	6.71

Data were analyzed statistically at the 5 % p (<0.05 %) level of significance

^aEach value is mean of five replicates

^bValues in parentheses indicate germination time in days

^cValues in parentheses indicate percent increase over treatment