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Table 4.

Rhizosphere functional diversities and evenness based on carbon source utilization pattern for rhizosphere chickpea cultivars treated with Pseudomonas putida RA and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SN13 individually and consortium under control and drought stress conditions

Samples	ShD	ShE	McD	McE	SimpD
BC	4.41 ± 0.00ⁱ	0.969 ± 0.001^g	0.983 ± 0.00ⁱ	0.983 ± 0.00^g	0.996 ± 0.00ⁱ
BC+D	4.11 ± 0.01^b	0.939 ± 0.002^b	0.963 ± 0.01^b	0.974 ± 0.00^b	0.992 ± 0.00^b
BRA	4.47 ± 0.00ⁿ	0.982 ± 0.002^l	0.990 ± 0.00ⁿ	0.990 ± 0.00^l	0.998 ± 0.00ⁿ
BRA+D	4.25 ± 0.00^c	0.951 ± 0.001^c	0.974 ± 0.01^c	0.979 ± 0.00^d	0.995 ± 0.00^c
BSN	4.47 ± 0.00ⁿ	0.982 ± 0.001^l	0.990 ± 0.00^o	0.990 ± 0.00^m	0.998 ± 0.00^o
BSN+D	4.28 ± 0.00^f	0.958 ± 0.000^f	0.977 ± 0.00^f	0.981 ± 0.00^f	0.995 ± 0.00^f
BRS	4.44 ± 0.00^j	0.975 ± 0.001^h	0.986 ± 0.00^j	0.986 ± 0.00^h	0.997 ± 0.00^j
BRS+D	4.28 ± 0.01^e	0.949 ± 0.001^c	0.976 ± 0.00^d	0.978 ± 0.00^c	0.995 ± 0.00^d
PC	4.45 ± 0.00^k	0.977 ± 0.000ⁱ	0.988 ± 0.00^k	0.988 ± 0.00ⁱ	0.997 ± 0.00^k
PC+D	4.08 ± 0.00^a	0.937 ± 0.001^a	0.960 ± 0.01^a	0.971 ± 0.00^a	0.991 ± 0.00^a
PRA	4.47 ± 0.00^m	0.981 ± 0.000^e	0.989 ± 0.00^m	0.989 ± 0.00^k	0.998 ± 0.00^m
PRA+D	4.27 ± 0.00^d	0.952 ± 0.001^d	0.976 ± 0.00^e	0.980 ± 0.00^e	0.995 ± 0.00^e
PSN	4.47 ± 0.02^m	0.981 ± 0.001^k	0.990 ± 0.00ⁿ	0.990 ± 0.00^l	0.998 ± 0.00ⁿ
PSN+D	4.30 ± 0.00^g	0.949 ± 0.000^c	0.977 ± 0.00^g	0.978 ± 0.00^c	0.995 ± 0.00^g
PRS	4.46 ± 0.00^l	0.979 ± 0.000^j	0.989 ± 0.00^l	0.989 ± 0.00^j	0.997 ± 0.00^l
PRS+D	4.36 ± 0.01^h	0.957 ± 0.000^e	0.981 ± 0.00^h	0.981 ± 0.00^f	0.996 ± 0.00^h

ShD (Shannon diversity); ShE (Shannon evenness); McD (McIntosh diversity); McE (McIntosh evenness); SimpD (Simpson diversity); PC (control of P1003); PRA (P1003 treated with RA); PSN (P1003 treated with SN13); PRS (P1003 treated with Consortium of RA and SN13); BC (Control of BG362); BRA (BG362 treated with RA); BSN (BG362 treated with SN13); BRS (BG362 treated with Consortium of RA and SN13); D represents drought.

“ ± : Standard errors (n=3)”. Different letters within column represents significant difference at (P=0.05) by using DMRT.