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. 2018 Mar 20;25(6):1102–1114. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2018.03.009

Table 2.

Effect of salinity on the intensity of structural colonization (%) in Cucumis sativus L. roots. Data presented are the means ± SE (n = 5). Data followed by different letters are significantly different at P < 0.05.

Treatment Intensity of structural colonization (%)
Mycelium
Vesicles
Arbuscules
Poor Medium Abundant Poor Medium Abundant Poor Medium Abundant
AMF 17.21 ± 2.74a 13.61 ± 1.13a 56.77 ± 4.47a 8.37 ± 0.98b 11.15 ± 3.63b 9.89 ± 1.84b 5.16 ± 1.67b 9.18 ± 1.93a 66.56 ± 9.26a
Salinity + AMF 24.73 ± 3.32b 7.406 ± 1.13b 5.21 ± 0.53b 22.38 ± 1.51a 25.30 ± 1.40a 38.23 ± 1.88a 20.53 ± 0.92a 4.36 ± 0.32b 10.32 ± 1.17b
LSD at: 0.05 5.026 3.772 34.816 11.463 8.438 12.834 8.093 2.735 23.961