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Table 3.

Effects of rhizosphere bacterial inoculations on growth and photosynthetic pigment of P. vulgaris.

Treatment	Seed germination (%)^⁎	Shoot length (cm)^⁎⁎	Root length (cm)^⁎⁎	Biomass (g/ FW)^⁎⁎	Photosynthetic pigments (mg/g FW)^⁎⁎
Treatment	Seed germination (%)^⁎	Shoot length (cm)^⁎⁎	Root length (cm)^⁎⁎	Biomass (g/ FW)^⁎⁎	Chlorophyll a	Chlorophyll b	Total chlorophyll	Carotenoid
Control	82.11 ± 3.04^a	38.11 ± 0.71^c	9.33 ± 0.88^a	2.4 ± 0.17^ab	2.47 ± 0.15^bc	2.11 ± 0.06^b	4.58 ± 0.24^b	1.15 ± 0.09^a
Cr(VI)	57 ± 9.9^b	18.44 ± 0.65^d	4.66 ± 1.15^b	1.5 ± 0.26^b	2.11 ± 0.10^c	1.73 ± 0.05^c	3.84 ± 0.11^c	1.34 ± 0.04^a
AR6 + Cr(VI)	88.12 ± 6.78^a	72.33 ± 1.14^a	11.66 ± 0.39^a	3.16 ± 0.14^a	3.26 ± 0.10^a	2.57 ± 0.06^a	5.83 ± 0.20^a	1.39 ± 0.03^a
AR8 + Cr(VI)	86.32 ± 6.02^a	57.82 ± 2.73^b	10.34 ± 0.54^a	2.5 ± 0.29^ab	2.74 ± 0.06^b	2.11 ± 0.07^b	4.85 ± 0.05^b	1.16 ± 0.07^a
F value	41.86	227.50	14.01	9.036	18.26	27.87	45.99	3.64

Note: FW - fresh weight; values followed by different letters are significantly different at P < 0.05.

^⁎

Kruskal-Wallis – median and interquartile range.

^⁎⁎

One-way ANOVA – mean ± standard error.