FIGURE 3.

Estimation of photosynthetic pigments. Chlorophyll a contents (A), chlorophyll b contents (B) and total chlorophyll content (C) of inoculated and uninoculated plants. Plant grown without NaCl considered as control condition and plant under 100 mM salt considered as stressed conditions. “+” represents the presence of bacteria or NaCl whereas “-” represents the absence of NaCl or bacteria. Bars denote means ± SE. ‘*,’ ‘**,’ ‘***’ indicate significant differences at P < 0.05, P < 0.01, and P < 0.001, respectively and ‘ns’ represents no significant difference.