Table 3.

Phytotoxic effect of different concentration of glyphosate on biological and symbiotic characteristics of chickpea grown in absence and presence of bioinoculant Burkholderia cepacia strain PSBB1

Treatments	Dose rate (μg kg−1 soil)	Plant length (cm)				Fresh weight (g plant−1)				Dry biomass (g plant−1)				Symbiotic attributes
		Shoot		Root		Shoot		Root		Shoot		Root		No. of nodules/plant		Nodule biomass
		80 DAS	120 DAS	80 DAS	120 DAS	80 DAS	120 DAS	80 DAS	120 DAS	80 DAS	120 DAS	80 DAS	120 DAS	80 DAS	120 DAS	80 DAS	120 DAS
Uninoculated	0	35.3bc	63.6b	19bc	37.6b	1.5bc	9.7bc	1.2b	3.6a	0.38c	3.3b	0.1c	0.42d	8.6bc	7.0b	0.17b	0.02c
	1444	32.3c	41.0 g	17.6c	27.6c	1.7b	9.2c	0.96d	3.5a	0.31e	2.7c	0.36a	0.21 g	11.3b	6.0b	0.11c	0.03a
	2888	21.0ef	47.3e	17.3c	21.0e	1.5bc	6.4e	0.85d	2.8bc	0.21 g	2.4d	0.09 cd	0.25f	5.6d	5.0bc	0.10c	0.01d
	4332	18.0f	44.0f	11.6d	13.6f	1.1c	3.7f	0.79d	2.5c	0.19 h	1.2f	0.07de	0.34e	1.6e	4.0c	0.11c	0.01d
Inoculated	0	43.0a	74.0a	37.3a	41.0a	2.5a	11.7a	2.7a	2.1d	0.49a	4.0a	0.06e	0.51b	21.6a	10.0a	0.23a	0.01e
	1444	33.6c	56.0c	18.3c	26.3 cd	2.4a	10.6b	1.2bc	3.1b	0.47b	2.9c	0.14b	0.54a	8.0 cd	6.0b	0.13c	0.02b
	2888	28.35	57.0c	21b	25.3 cd	2.3a	8.0d	1.01c	2.6c	0.36d	2.3d	0.11c	0.46c	9.3bc	6.0b	0.11c	0.017c
	4332	27d	52.6d	13.6d	23.3de	1.4bc	4.4f	0.84d	2.0d	0.25f	1.5e	0.08de	0.44d	11.0bc	4.0c	0.12c	0.01d
LSD		3.981	2.763	2.45	31.6	0.34	1.04	0.25	1.04	0.008	0.37	0.02	0.026	2.98	1.35	0.002	0.011
F value Un inoculated (df = 1)		142.6	79.54	137	228.95	75.79	34.35	77.49	75.4	3610	9.87	173.0	854.9	101.2	15.7	40.3	25.9
Inoculated (df = 3)		58.09	127.0	132	73.5	20.17	67.7	84.71	31.7	1769	115	299.7	54.79	33.85	29.5	215.9	5.59
Un inoculated × inoculated (df = 3)		3.92	175.2	40.2	15.59	4.42	88.3	33.96	14.3	553	3.25	133.6	81.9	12.43	5.11	63.6	1.34

Each value is a mean of three replicates where each replicate constituted three plants/pot. Mean values are significant at P ≤ 0.05. Means followed by similar alphabets are not significantly different from each other according to DMRT test