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Table 2.

Changes in phosphatase activity and dehydrogenase activity in rice rhizosphere as influenced by PSB inoculation

Treatments	Phosphatase activity (µg PNP g⁻¹ soil)		Dehydrogenase activity (µg TPF g⁻¹ soil)
Treatments	60 days	Harvest	60 days	Harvest
Control	18.00^k	16.64^f	2.39^j	2.36ⁱ
SP₄₀	25.58^c,d	23.65^d,e	16.22^e	16.15^e
RP₆₀	23.04^d	22.49^e	14.93^f	13.64^f
P. striata	27.14^b,c	24.18^c,d,e	10.92^h	10.24^g
Gluconacetobacter sp.	30.89^a,b	27.65^b,c	9.79ⁱ	8.93^h
Burkholderia sp.	27.96^b,c	24.72^c,d,e	11.37^h	10.60^g
Gluconacetobacter sp. + Burkholderia sp.	28.23^b,c	26.35^c,d	13.18^g	12.83^f
P. striata + RP₆₀	28.24^b,c	26.38^b,c,d	33.06^d	34.23^d
Gluconacetobacter sp. + RP₆₀	34.21^a	30.96^a	34.75^c	35.33^c
Burkholderia sp. + RP₆₀	28.79^b,c	26.46^c,d	36.28^b	38.19^b
Gluconacetobacter sp. + Burkholderia sp. + RP₆₀	31.37^a,b	29.11^a,b	38.88^a	40.20^a
CD (5 %)	2.12	1.68	0.69	0.66

The mean values with a common letter in the superscript within each column does not differ significantly at 5 % level of significance