Table 2.
Crop parameters and cultivable epiphytic bacteria from lettuce plants treated and no treated with the three commercial products.
Leaf SPAD | Shoot fresh | Leaf fresh | |||
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Treatment | index | weight (g/plant) | weight (g/leaf) | Aerobic cultivable bacteria [CFU (∗103)/g biomass] | |
day after treatment | 7 days after treatment | ||||
No-treated | 18.0 ± 2.4b | 6.05 ± 0.28b | 1.03 ± 0.01d | 2.48 ± 0.03b | 1.11 ± 0.01b |
PE | 24.6 ± 0.6a | 6.62 ± 0.20a | 1.23 ± 0.06b | 4.92 ± 0.02a | 0.92 ± 0.01b |
Cu-PH | 19.9 ± 2.9b | 6.78 ± 0.14a | 1.27 ± 0.04a | 0.10 ± 0.05c | 17.90 ± 0.80a |
PH | 25.3 ± 1.6a | 6.68 ± 0.21a | 1.19 ± 0.04c | 1.76 ± 0.05b | 0.98 ± 0.01b |
Significancea | ∗ | ∗∗ | ∗∗ | ∗∗ | ∗∗ |
PE = tropical plant extract; PH = protein hydrolysate; Cu-PH = copper-based PH. Values ( ± SD) with no letter in common significantly differ at p ≤ 0.05 (Tukey HSD test).a∗,∗∗ Significant at P ≤ 0.05 and 0.01, respectively.