Table 2.
Shoot dry matter (SDM), root dry matter (RDM), total dry matter (TDM), and number of tillers of sugarcane seedlings inoculated or not (control) with six different bacterial inoculant day of transplanting (T0), 30 (T30) and 45 (T45) days after transplanting.
| Time | T0 | T30 | T45 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatments | SDM | RDM | TDM | Tiller | SDM | RDM | TDM | Tiller | SDM | RDM | TDM | Tiller | |||||||||||
| g | g | g | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Control | 0.27 | c * | 0.37 | a | 0.64 | c | - | 1.58 | b | 0.84 | b | 2.42 | c | 2.17 | a | 3.45 | b | 1.51 | b | 4.96 | b | 2.25 | a |
| IAC/BECa-088 | 0.78 | a | 0.42 | a | 1.2 | a | - | 2.74 | a | 1.23 | a | 3.96 | a | 2.17 | a | 5.23 | a | 2.49 | a | 7.72 | a | 2.25 | a |
| IAC/BECa-090 | 0.51 | b | 0.41 | a | 0.92 | b | - | 2.32 | a | 0.92 | b | 3.24 | b | 2 | a | 4.89 | a | 2.37 | a | 7.25 | a | 2.83 | a |
| IAC/BECa-095 | 0.64 | a | 0.45 | a | 1.09 | a | - | 2.38 | a | 0.86 | b | 3.23 | b | 1.75 | a | 5.00 | a | 2.55 | a | 7.55 | a | 3.08 | a |
| IAC/BECa-135 | 0.7 | a | 0.38 | a | 1.08 | a | - | 2.54 | a | 0.96 | b | 3.5 | b | 2.33 | a | 5.11 | a | 2.33 | a | 7.45 | a | 2.5 | a |
| IAC/BECa-141 | 0.75 | a | 0.45 | a | 1.2 | a | - | 2.31 | a | 0.98 | b | 3.29 | b | 2.33 | a | 4.78 | a | 2.98 | a | 7.76 | a | 2.42 | a |
| IAC/BECa-152 | 0.75 | a | 0.45 | a | 1.2 | a | - | 2.26 | a | 1.00 | b | 3.26 | b | 1.83 | a | 4.45 | a | 2.55 | a | 7 | a | 2.92 | a |
| CV (%) | 19.5 | 9.97 | 12.68 | - | 17.03 | 18.19 | 14.52 | 30.98 | 11.73 | 16.48 | 11.89 | 31.26 | |||||||||||
* Different lower-case letters (a, b, c) indicate significant differences among inoculation treatments within each analyzed time by the Scott-Knott (p < 0.05). CV (%): coefficient of variation.