Table 4.
Phytotoxic effect of different concentration of glyphosate on photosynthetic pigments, leghaemoglobin content, proline accumulation, seed attributes and nutritional content of chickpea grown in absence and presence of bioinoculant Burkholderia cepacia strain PSBB1
| Treatments | Dose rate (μg kg−1 soil) | Chlorophyll content (μg mg−1) | Leghaemoglobin content (mM (gf m)−1) | Proline content (mg (g fw)−1) | Seed attributes | N content (μg mg−1) | P content (μg mg−1) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chl a | Chl b | Total chl | Carotenoid | Shoot | Root | Leaves | Grains | No. of seeds/plant | Seed yield (g plant−1) | Seed protein (mg g−1) | Shoot | Root | Shoot | Root | |||
| Uninoculated | 0 | 0.31b | 0.19b | 0.42c | 1.25ab | 0.37b | 9.1f | 20.4e | 11.7f | 54.4a | 10.3d | 0. 9b | 341.3bc | 22.4b | 14.4b | 0.49b | 0.29b |
| 1444 | 0.29c | 0.18c | 0.41c | 1.15bc | 0.23c | 25.8d | 23.4 cd | 20.2d | 21.1e | 13.0bc | 0.88b | 350abc | 21.9b | 13.5b | 0.47b | 0.25c | |
| 2888 | 0.27c | 0.16d | 0.37d | 0.95d | 0.24e | 41.2b | 29.2b | 27.6b | 21.1e | 14.6ab | 0.71c | 290.6d | 20.2bc | 12.5c | 0.45d | 0.24d | |
| 4332 | 0.23d | 0.14e | 0.26e | 0.84d | 0.22e | 47.4a | 33.7a | 32.4a | 26.6c | 12.0c | 0.52e | 244.6e | 18.3bc | 12.3c | 0.42e | 0.24d | |
| Inoculated | 0 | 0.37a | 0.20a | 0.55a | 1.37a | 0.46a | 24.5d | 19.5e | 9.6 g | 44.5b | 7.0e | 0.99a | 395.0a | 27.2a | 18.0a | 0.54a | 0.33a |
| 1444 | 0.34b | 0.21a | 0.45b | 1.33ab | 0.28d | 16.1e | 22.8d | 14.1e | 19.2f | 16.0a | 0.89b | 354.3ab | 22.7b | 14.0b | 0.49bc | 0.26c | |
| 2888 | 0.28c | 0.19b | 0.39c | 1.15bc | 0.28d | 25.2d | 25.4c | 23.0c | 18.8f | 13.6bc | 0.73c | 305.0 cd | 21.6b | 14.0b | 0.45 cd | 0.23d | |
| 4332 | 0.22d | 0.17c | 0.28e | 1.0 cd | 0.27d | 32.0c | 20.0e | 26.0b | 23.1d | 9.6d | 0.59d | 268.6de | 19.0c | 12.0 cc | 0.43e | 0.22d | |
| LSD | 0.025 | 0.008 | 0.016 | 0.138 | 0.027 | 1.52 | 2.11 | 1.25 | 1.45 | 0.065 | 43.12 | 4.25 | 1.05 | 0.022 | 3.20 | ||
|
F value Un inoculated (df = 1) |
47.09 | 53.19 | 625 | 26.06 | 28.63 | 201 | 24.51 | 580.8 | 1560 | 4.92 | 172.9 | 5.74 | 1.68 | 29.5 | 4.11 | 1.02 | |
| Inoculated (df = 3) | 83.42 | 104.26 | 430.8 | 18.71 | 141.77 | 367.19 | 24.5 | 488.1 | 784.1 | 45.73 | 60.06 | 25.8 | 9.65 | 47.3 | 54.1 | 0.97 | |
| Un-inoculated × inoculated (df = 3) | 24.93 | 5.26 | 42.62 | 11.57 | 23.04 | 1008 | 84.97 | 257.3 | 517.3 | 11.33 | 16.9 | 1.12 | 1.87 | 11.7 | 5.11 | 0.99 | |
Each value is a mean of three replicate where each replicate constituted three plants/pot. Mean values are significant of P ≤ 0.05. Means followed by similar alphabets not significantly different from each other according to DMRT test