. 2020 Oct 27;8:e9960. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9960

Table 2. Effect of biofertilizer (Phytoguard) and salicylic acid (SA) on the fresh and dry weight of shoot and roots of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) plants in control and drought-stressed conditions.

Treatments	Shoot fresh weight (g)	Shoot dry weight (g)	Root fresh weight (g)	Root dry weight (g)
C	0.13 ± 0.019^E	0.036 ± 0.013^F	0.078 ± 0.0006^F	0.033 ± 0.0012^E
CD	0.13 ± 0.002^E	0.035 ± 0.002^F	0.22 ± 0.001^D	0.04 ± 0.0003^E
BF	0.35 ± 0.003^B	0.18 ± 0.003^C	0.26 ± 0.020^D	0.078 ± 0.004^CD
BF+D	0.28 ± 0.006^C	0.12 ± 0.003^DE	0.53 ± 0.0016^B	0.28 ± 0.003^B
SA	0.31 ± 0.006^C	0.14 ± 0.001^D	0.16 ± 0.015^E	0.07 ± 0.0014^D
SA+D	0.22 ± 0.005^D	0.11 ± 0.005^E	0.47 ± 0.006^C	0.21 ± 0.0008^B
BF+SA	0.41 ± 0.007^A	0.25 ± 0.011^A	0.44 ± 0.0016^C	0.087 ± 0.003^C
BF+SA+D	0.34 ± 0.010^B	0.20 ± 0.0027^B	0.613 ± 0.0076^A	0.32 ± 0.006^A

Note:

Values are the means ± SE (n = 3). A different alphabet after each data within the same column exhibit the significant difference at (P = 0.05).