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. 2019 Feb 5;10:60. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00060

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
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.