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Table 5.

Inhibitory effect of strain HX-140 on cucumber seedling diseases in the field experiment

Group	Before inoculation of HX-140		After inoculation of HX-140		Control efficacy (%)^a
Group	Incidence rate (%)^a	Disease index^a	Incidence rate (%)^a	Disease index^a	Control efficacy (%)^a
CK	28.57 ± 1.03 a	7.44 ± 0.68 a	76.19 ± 0.60 a	59.37 ± 0.45 a
T1	27.38 ± 1.58 a	7.44 ± 1.29 a	68.45 ± 0.59 b	47.77 ± 1.12 b	19.5
T2	27.38 ± 2.15 a	7.44 ± 1.44 a	54.76 ± 1.57 c	34.97 ± 2.43 c	41.1
T3	29.17 ± 0.60 a	7.74 ± 0.52 a	44.65 ± 3.72 d	30.36 ± 1.80 c	50.9

CK Control group with no inoculation, T1 treatment with 10⁶ cfu/mL bacterial suspension of HX-140, T2 treatment with 10⁷ cfu/mL, T3 treatment with 10⁸ cfu/mL bacterial suspension of HX-140

^a The lowercase letters in the table indicate significant differences between treatments (P < 0.05)