Table 1.
Effect of salinity stress (250 mM NaCl) on intensity of structural colonization (%) of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) as mycelia (M), vesicles (V), and arbuscules (A) in Acacia gerrardii in response to endophytic B. subtilis (Bs). Data presented are the means ± SE (n = 5).
| Treatments | Intensity of structural colonization (%) | |||||||||
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| P | M | A | P | M | A | P | M | A | ||
| Control | AMF | 51.2 | 27.6 | 21.2 | 22.4 | 50.4 | 27.2 | 63.6 | 29.0 | 7.4 |
| AMF + Bs | 9.4 | 43.8 | 46.8 | 12.8 | 34.4 | 52.8 | 22.4 | 41.8 | 35.8 | |
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| 250 mM NaCl | AMF | 77.2 | 16.8 | 6 | 71.4 | 19.4 | 9.2 | 80.8 | 14.4 | 4.8 |
| AMF + Bs | 50.4 | 34.4 | 15.2 | 33.6 | 41.2 | 25.2 | 69.8 | 19.4 | 10.8 | |
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| LSD at 0.05% | 14. 51 | 8.71 | 7.04 | 8.09 | 9.74 | 5.11 | 7.23 | 5.24 | 2.07 | |
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| Coefficient of variance | 4.229 | 3.127 | 2.531 | 2.065 | 4.235 | 3.011 | 4.512 | 3.234 | 2.107 | |
P = poor; M = moderate; A = abundant.