Table 4.

Quantitative plant growth promoting activities of the isolates

Tests*	Condition	Activity/isolates
		G7	G8	G9	G10	G12	G18	G34	G39	G43	G54
TCP (µg/ml)	pH 7	2.90 ± 0.05	1.90 ± 0.03	1.19 ± 0.04	2.94 ± 0.06	2.12 ± 0.04	1.45 ± 0.06	0.59 ± 0.06	0.45 ± 0.06	1.63 ± 0.04	1.93 ± 0.09
ALP (µg/ml)	pH 7	1.93 ± 0.03	0.56 ± 0.01	0.80 ± 0.05a	1.70 ± 0.05	0.92 ± 0.01	1.23 ± 0.03	0.52 ± 0.05	0.47 ± 0.02	1.36 ± 0.02	1.66 ± 0.04
	pH 4	0.33 ± 0.02	0.20 ± 0.00	0.90 ± 0.03a	0.80 ± 0.13	0.60 ± 0.09	0.66 ± 0.12	0.31 ± 0.04	0.25 ± 0.07	0.58 ± 0.22	0.69 ± 0.11
ZP (µg/ml)	pH 7	1.37 ± 0.04	0.51 ± 0.03	0.59 ± 0.02	0.81 ± 0.04	1.24 ± 0.05	1.17 ± 0.03	0.57 ± 0.04	0.45 ± 0.02	1.08 ± 0.05	1.22 ± 0.05
	pH 4	0.14 ± 0.02	0.09 ± 0.00	0.09 ± 0.00	0.08 ± 0.008	0.13 ± 0.03	0.16 ± 0.01	0.17 ± 0.01	0.17 ± 0.01	0.14 ± 0.01	0.13 ± 0.03
CP (µg/ml)	pH 7	2.08 ± 0.04	1.90 ± 0.02	0.97 ± 0.05	1.67 ± 0.05	1.94 ± 0.03	0.65 ± 0.04	0.43 ± 0.057	0.55 ± 0.03	1.37 ± 0.03	1.87 ± 0.04
	pH 4	0.73 ± 0.04	0.41 ± 0.11	0.19 ± 0.03	0.16 ± 0.01	0.86 ± 0.12	0.77 ± 0.10	0.69 ± 0.06	0.19 ± 0.003	0.35 ± 0.03	0.06 ± 0.01
IAA (µg/ml)	pH 7	1.02 ± 0.06	0.36 ± 0.12	0.77 ± 0.06	0.55 ± 0.06	0.65 ± 0.09	0.54 ± 0.15	0.57 ± 0.09	0.53 ± 0.08	0.58 ± 0.03	0.47 ± 0.12
	pH 4	0.10 ± 0.003	0.06 ± 0.00	0.06 ± 0.00	0.013 ± 0.005	0.06 ± 0.01	0.68 ± 0.002	0.06 ± 0.01	0.02 ± 0.005	0.06 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.003
Siderophore (%)	pH 7	98.67 ± 0.54	98.12 ± 0.28	99.63 ± 0.22	98.67 ± 0.54	95.04 ± 1.68	96.32 ± 0.61	98.61 ± 0.59	95.93 ± 0.94	97.81 ± 0.31	98.43 ± 0.35
	pH 4	44.00 ± 3.21	28.45 ± 5.5	44.63 ± 2.0	44.004 ± 3.21	27.38 ± 2.08	32.32 ± 2.64	43.61 ± 2.64	45.26 ± 2.51	45.47 ± 4.04	34.43 ± 4.35

* The values are represented as mean ± SD (n = 3); same superscript letter within a column indicates non-significant value, otherwise significant (p ≤ 0.05). Row 3 (TCP) was not considered for test of significance