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Table 3.

Control of rice sheath blight disease under greenhouse conditions by the selected endophytic isolate Lysinibacillus sphaericus in comparison to a registered fungicide, carbendazim

Treatments	Treatment details	Lesion height (cm)	Plant height (cm)	% DI	% DS
T1	SD (L. sphaericus)	4.83^def	64.63^c	7.48^de	78.06^ab
T2	SO (L. sphaericus)	4.17^f	65.10^b	6.36^e	81.35^a
T3	FS (L. sphaericus)	3.37^c	64.70^c	5.20^e	84.75^a
T4	SD + SO (L. sphaericus)	4.33^ef	65.40^b	6.63^e	80.56^a
T5	SD + FS (L. sphaericus)	4.33^ef	67.40^a	6.43^e	81.14^a
T6	SO + FS (L. sphaericus)	4.37^ef	67.13^a	6.50^e	80.94^a
T7	SD (carbendazim)	10.07^b	62.10^e	16.21^b	52.49^d
T8	SO (carbendazim)	7.85^bc	62.07^e	12.65^bc	62.80^cd
T9	FS (carbendazim)	6.93^cde	62.10^e	11.15^cd	67.41^bc
T10	SD + SO (carbendazim)	7.47^bcd	62.40^de	11.98^bc	64.83^c
T11	SD + FS (carbendazim)	7.40^bcd	62.67^d	11.81 ^cd	68.16^bc
T12	SO + FS (carbendazim)	6.93^cde	62.30^de	11.13^cd	67.25^bc
T13	Disease control	18.20^a	53.37^f	34.10^a	0.00^e
LSD at 5%		4.38	12.07	2.73	0.47

* All values are means from three repeated experiments with three replications and means in a column followed by the same letter(s) are not significantly different according to Duncan’s multiple range test (P = 0.05) at 5% level of significance