TABLE 3.

Disease assessment in maize seedlings inoculated with different bacterial isolates and then germinated in soil exposed to F. verticillioides^a

Treatment	Disease incidence (%)	Disease severity score	Disease reduction (%)
Control	100.0 (0.0) a	4.0 (0.0) a	0.0 (0.0) c
Isolate
EBS8	0.0 (0.0) c	0.0 (0.0) c	100.0 (0.0) a
EPR2	30.0 (4.1) b	1.5 (0.7) b	29.0 (4.1) b
IGBR11	0.0 (0.0) c	0.0 (0.0) c	100.0 (0.0) a
ADS14	20.1 (0.1) bc	1.0 (0.0) bc	19.0 (0.0) b

^aResults are mean values (standard deviations) for five replicates. Values followed by different letters within a column indicate significant differences according to the Student-Newman-Keuls multiple-range test (α = 0.05).