. 2020 Jan 24;10(2):65. doi: 10.1007/s13205-019-2046-4

Table 4.

Effect of PGPB consortium inoculation containing ACC deaminase on growth attributes of finger millet plants under irrigated and drought conditions (Experiment II)

Treatments	(I) Shoot length (cm)		(II) Root length (cm)		(III) Shoot dry weight (g)		(IV) Root dry weight (g)		(V) R/S ratio
Treatments	Irrigated	Drought	Irrigated	Drought	Irrigated	Drought	Irrigated	Drought	Irrigated	Drought
T1 (control)	37.00^a	35.68^A	12.07^a	10.17^A	0.16^a	0.13^A	0.16^a	0.05^A	0.97^b	0.43^A
T2	45.93^b	43.25^BC	16.84^b	14.33^BC	0.31^bc	0.25^C	0.24^bc	0.15^B	0.78^ab	0.61^B
T3	46.73^bc	44.68^BC	16.63^b	13.42^BC	0.27^b	0.21^B	0.21^b	0.15^B	0.77^ab	0.71^B
T4	46.33^b	41.15^B	15.88^b	12.96^B	0.32^bc	0.23^BC	0.26^c	0.14^B	0.82^ab	0.62^B
T5	48.53^bc	45.42^C	19.13^bc	15.67^C	0.34^c	0.27^CD	0.27^c	0.19^C	0.79^ab	0.73^B
T6	47.40^bc	41.67^B	17.17^b	13.67^BC	0.35^c	0.28^CD	0.29^cd	0.15^B	0.84^b	0.56^AB
T7	52.53^c	45.67^C	19.38^bc	14.75^BC	0.44^d	0.30^D	0.32^d	0.16^BC	0.73^ab	0.55^AB
T8	50.73^c	43.83^BC	21.23^c	15.92^C	0.36^c	0.29^CD	0.33^d	0.21^C	0.91^b	0.74^B

(I) shoot length, (II) root length, (III) shoot dry weight, (IV) root dry weight and (V) R/S ratio of root to shoot dry weight. Values are SEM of three replicates. Treatment means within columns with the different letters indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) after DMRT