Table 3.

Effect of M1 (10⁹ cells/ mL) and M2 (10⁹ cells/ mL) on: SOD, POD, CAT, GPOX, APOX, DHAR, GST, GR, PPO in 45-days old L. esculentum plants under PPN infection. Data is presented as means of three replicates ± SD and HSD values. F ratio values, * indicates significance at p ≤ 0.05 and ** indicates significance at p ≤ 0.01). Different letters on the graphs indicate that mean values of treatments are significantly different at p < 0.5 according to Tukey’s multiple comparison test.

Treatments	SOD (Mean ± SD)	POD (Mean ± SD)	CAT (Mean ± SD)	GPOX (Mean ± SD)	APOX (Mean ± SD)	DHAR (Mean ± SD)	GST (Mean ± SD)	GR (Mean ± SD)	PPO (Mean ± SD)
Control	53.44 ± 3.506 d	256.4 ± 6.612 f	54.08 ± 1.859 d	23.58 ± 0.8076 e	389.1 ± 9.030 d	136.8 ± 1.718 d	21.73 ± 1.672 e	210.5 ± 5.574 e	71.13 ± 2.373 f
N	71.97 ± 1.254 b	402.8 ± 1.859 c	70.94 ± 0.941 b	33.65 ± 1.1611 c	442.3 ± 11.220 c	150.5 ± 6.151 c	27.45 ± 1.831 c	353.9 ± 3.156 b	84.82 ± 3.642 e
M1	61.0 ± 1.787 c	349.8 ± 6.733 e	58.77 ± 3.792 c,d	27.35 ± 0.8783 d	651.0 ± 16.274 a	167.1 ± 3.257 b	32.03 ± 2.427 c	286.7 ± 9.087 c	96.28 ± 3.006 d
M1 + N	84.45 ± 2.184 a	524.2 ± 1.539 a	78.62 ± 2.826 a	36.0 ± 0.7885 b	510.9 ± 3.854 b	174.7 ± 2.368 a,b	38.04 ± 1.908 b	360.1 ± 4.650 a,b	137.7 ± 4.165 a
M2	59.33 ± 3.729 c,d	370.3 ± 1.270 d	63.14 ± 2.310 c	25.94 ± 0.3994 d	401.9 ± 2.382 d	156.7 ± 3.503 c	31.41 ± 1.5008 c,d	246.8 ± 13.211 d	111.8 ± 3.856 c
M2 + N	78.74 ± 1.727 ab	454.6 ± 6.143 b	76.50 ± 1.901 a,b	40.1 ± 0.9736 a	522.4 ± 8.446 b	183.2 ± 2.587 a	44.44 ± 2.130 a	379.8 ± 3.659 a	123.8 ± 5.584 b
F-ratio(df 1,12) T	291.8 **	3667.7 **	193.4 **	720.3 **	3.199	90.11 **	81.78 **	11730.7 **	148.3 **
F-ratio(df 2,12) D	23.85 **	849.5 **	18.97 **	40.77 **	246.7 **	113.3 4**	78.78 **	54.79 **	204.4 **
F-ratio(df 2,12) T × D	1.599	142.6 **	4.795 **	16.29 **	155.47 **	11.09 **	6.881 *	37.20 **	26.91 **
HSD	6.967	12.972	6.686	2.375	36.445	9.758	5.308	19.95	10.69