Table 1.
Treatments | Root length colonization (%) | |||||
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Non-inoculation | Inoculation | |||||
30 | 60 | 90 | 30 | 60 | 90 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28.1a | 44.3a | 56.9a |
2‰ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.7b | 35.4b | 46.2b |
4‰ | 0 | 0 | × | 19.2c | 27.7c | 35.6c |
6‰ | 0 | × | × | 18.2c | 10.8d | × |
aValues of each column followed by the same letter are not significantly different at the 0.05 level. Each value represents the mean of 6 replicates. Numerals 30, 60 and 90 stand for sampling times (days) after salinity treatment. The sign “×” denotes that apple plants were dead.