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. 2018 Nov 29;13(11):e0208150. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208150

Fig 9. Pollution load index and pollutant concentration factor.

Fig 9

Fig 9A represents pollution load index values of heavy metals in contaminated and reference soil; Fig 9B represents pollutant concentration factor values of heavy metals in fungal inoculated non-inoculated wheat plants in contaminated soil; FIWP = fungal inoculated wheat plant; NIWP = non-inoculated wheat plant; Ni = nickel; Cd = cadmium; Cu = copper; Zn = zinc; Pb = lead. The experiment was carried out in triplicate, each replicate comprised of 10 pots and each pot contained 6 seedlings (total = 6 × 10 × 3 = 180 seedlings per treatment). Means of fungal inoculated wheat plants (FIWP) were compared with non-inoculated wheat plants (NIWP) by using ttest; The experiment was carried out in triplicate, each replicate comprised of 10 pots and each pot contained 6 seedlings (total = 6 × 10 × 3 = 180 seedlings per treatment); ‘**’ represents significant difference at P = 0.005; ‘*’ represents significant difference at P = 0.05; ‘ns’ represents non-significant difference at P = 0.05.