Table 2.
Treatment | Dose rate (µg ml−1) | IAA (µg ml−1) | Phosphate solubilization | EPS (µg ml−1) | ACC deaminase activity (μM α-ketobutyrate mg−1 protein h−1) | Siderophore | HCN | NH3 | |||||
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Liquid broth (µg ml−1) | Solid media | Phenolate (µg ml−1) | CAS agar (mm) | FeCl3 test | |||||||||
SE | SI | SA | 2,3-DHBA | ||||||||||
Control | 0 | 81.6a | 50.8a | 2.4a | 129.3a | 29.4a | 69.3a | 39.3a | 26.6a | 16.3a | +++ | ++ | +++ |
1× | 500 | 72.6b | 23.5b | 2.3a | 126a | 28.9ab | 60.5b | 39a | 25.1b | 16.0ab | ++ | ++ | ++ |
2× | 1000 | 62.2c | 19.2c | 2.1b | 111b | 27b | 55.9c | 34.3b | 20.7c | 15.3b | ++ | + | + |
3× | 1500 | 59.3c | 14.1d | 2.0c | 108b | 22.3c | 49.1d | 26.1c | 18.3d | 14.0c | ++ | ND | ND |
LSD | 3.01 | 1.72 | 0.098 | 5.08 | 2.37 | 2.53 | 3.33 | 1.27 | 0.88 | − | − | − |
Value indicates the means of three independent replicates. Means followed by similar alphabets are not significantly different from each other according to DMRT