Table 8.
Influence of biochar and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on total nitrogen and total phosphorous contents in hoot and root of chickpea under drought stress.
| Treatments | Shoot |
Root |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nitrogen (mg g−1 dwt) | Total phosphorus (mg g−1 dwt) | Total nitrogen (mg g−1 dwt) | Total phosphorus (mg g−1 dwt) | |
| Control | 3.09c | 0.4553d | 1.56d | 0.3773c |
| AMF | 3.55b | 0.5830b | 2.14b | 0.422b |
| Biochar | 3.18c | 0.5116c | 1.72c | 0.419b |
| Biochar + AMF | 4.01a | 0.6273a | 2.57a | 0.473a |
| Drought | 1.23g | 0.2513h | 0.776h | 0.1916g |
| Drought + AMF | 2.54e | 0.3540g | 1.176f | 0.236f |
| Drought + Biochar | 1.97f | 0.3730f | 0.993g | 0.269e |
| Drought + Biochar + AMF | 2.79d | 0.4003e | 1.28e | 0.302d |
| LSD at: 0.05% | 0.11 | 0.0226 | 0.0727 | 0.0121 |
AMF = An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Means sharing the same letter, for a parameter, do not differ significantly at P ≤ 0.05.