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Table 5.

Effect of silver nanoparticles on bacterial count (log₁₀ cfu) of wheat

Treatments	Total bacteria			N fixers			P solubilizers			Siderophore producers
Treatments	20 DAT	40 DAT	Mean	20 DAT	40 DAT	Mean	20 DAT	40 DAT	Mean	20 DAT	40 DAT	Mean
0 ppm	2.299^c	2.282^c	2.290^c	0.920^c	0.519^b	0.719^b	0.360^ab	0.560^b	0.460^b	0.981^c	0.933^b	0.957^b
50 ppm	2.259^bc	2.271^bc	2.265^b	1.075^c	0.418^ab	0.747^b	0.551^b	0.534^b	0.543^b	1.285^c	1.308^d	1.296^c
75 ppm	2.142^a	2.248^b	2.195^a	0.534^b	0.259^a	0.397^a	0.100^a	0.159^a	0.130^a	0.502^b	0.201^a	0.351^a
Mean	2.233^a	2.267^b		0.843^b	0.399^a		0.337^a	0.418^a		0.923^a	0.814^a
	cd at 5%			cd at 5%			cd at 5%			cd at 5%
Time interval (T)	0.017			0.147			0.178			0.114
Concentration (C)	0.021			0.180			0.219			0.140
T × C	0.029			0.255			0.309			0.198

Values are the means of three replicates

Means sharing different alphabets “a”–“c” differ significantly from each other at p < 0.05