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. 2021 Mar 2;20:57. doi: 10.1186/s12934-021-01540-3

Table 1.

Effect of axenic, co-culture and modular co-culture of T. asperellum and B. amyloliquefaciens on the plant growth and biological control against Fusarium verticillioides and Cohilohorus herostrophus under both corn stover amended and non-amended soil in green house conditions

Treatments Length (cm) Wet weight (gm) Dry weight (gm) Disease index (%)
Shoot Root Shoot Root Shoot Root Root rot Leaf spot
T1 41.22.41i 22.54 ± 0.36f 1.36 ± 0.04f 0.03 ± 0.07f 0.1 ± 0.02g 0.01 ± 0.021e ND ND
T2 54.26.3f 19.55 ± 0.6h 1.57 ± 0.09f 0.12 ± 0.08d 0.17 ± 0.01f 0.04 ± 0.06b 30c 30c
T3 51.98 ± 0.41g 31.17 ± 0.41c 2.51 ± 0.07e 0.14 ± 0.01d 0.33 ± 0.01d 0.0344 ± 0.01c 40d 40d
T4 55.46 ± 0.45f 25.8 ± 0.48c 3.26 ± 0.05d 0.12 ± 0.05d 0.33 ± 0.09d 0.04 ± 0.08c 30c 30c
T5 59.87 ± 0.5d 25.51 ± 0.2e 3.42 ± 0.07d 0.15 ± 0.01d 0.45 ± 0.07c 0.05 ± 0.01b 30c 30c
T6 65.55 ± 0.4c 28.99 ± 0.5d 4.4 ± 0.09c 0.15 ± 0.01d 0.46 ± 0.02c 0.05 ± 0.01b 20b 20b
T7 34.74 ± 0.20j 17.7 ± 0.29 l 2.5 ± 0.11e 0.04 ± 0.07ef 0.25 ± 0.01e 0.024 ± 0.05d 60e 60e
T8 43.94 ± 0.56h 21.02 ± 0.50g 2.72 ± 0.13e 0.08 ± 0.02e 0.28 ± 0.01e 0.02 ± 0.01d ND ND
T9 55.37 ± 0.37f 22.62 ± 0.47f 3.51 ± 0.15d 0.14 ± 0.015d 0.44 ± 0.01c 0.05 ± 0.01eb 30d 30d
T10 55.89 ± 0.37e 24.64 ± 0.51e 3.53 ± 0.14d 0.14 ± 0.06d 0.33 ± 0.17d 0.05 ± 0.01b 40b 40b
T11 68.88 ± 0.3b 35.55 ± 0.46b 5.68 ± 0.08c 0.22 ± 0.02c 0.44 ± 0.01c 0.05 ± 0.03b 20a 20a
T12 69.53 ± 0.36b 29.62 ± 0.51d 5.56 ± 0.15b 0.34 ± 0.15b 0.59 ± 0.02b 0.07 ± 0.016a 10a 10a
T13 74.98 ± 0.57a 44.94 ± 0.28a 6.54 ± 0.14a 0.45 ± 0.017a 0.64 ± 0.011a 0.07 ± 0.0017a 10a 10a
T14 42.2 ± 0.3j 16.3 ± 0.42J 2.618 ± 0.1e 0.08 ± 0.004e 0.25 ± 0.001e 0.03 ± 0.001c 70d 70d

Results are average of five replicates for each treatment; the values given are the standard error of the mean. Different superscripts in the same column are significantly different (P < 0.05) based on the ANOVA