Table 1. Statistical comparison of wheat growth and symptom traits between inoculation treatments.

PCA groups	Strains	Genus	Chlorophyll	Shoot dry weight	Ear Number	Ear weight	Strand length	Symptoms
NC	NC	-	ab$	ab	ab	a	a	g
Group 1	JM79	Bacillus	a	ab	abcd	a	ab	ef
	JM3	Bacillus	a	a	ab	ab	a	bcd
Group 2	JM134	Staphylococcus	abcde	abc	ab	abc	bcde	cde
	JM154C	Arthrobacter	abcd	abc	bcde	abcd	abc	ef
	AB42	Bacillus	efg	bcde	abc	ab	cdef	def
	JM147B	Microbacterium	abcde	bcde	abcd	abcd	bcde	fg
	JM154D	Pseudomonas	cdefg	bc	bcde	abcd	abcd	ef
	PkF113	Pseudomonas	gh	abc	cdef	abcd	abcd	def
	JM42B	Pseudomonas	fgh	def	efg	de	def	def
	JM182	Variovorax	bcdef	cdef	defg	bcde	abcd	def
	JM20	Agrobacterium	defg	cdef	efg	cde	def	fg
Group 3	JM131	Pseudomonas	abcde	abc	ab	a	abc	abc
	JM152	Arthrobacter	abc	bcd	a	abc	abc	ab
Group 4	JM62	Pseudomonas	h	f	g	e	f	ef
PC	PC	-	h	ef	fg	e	ef	a

NC: negative control (un-inoculated wheat plants). PC: positive control (wheat plants inoculated with Fg1 only).

^$ Statistical differences between strains for each plant parameters are indicated with letters a to h. (ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD test, P < 0.05)