FIGURE 3.

Verticillium wilt disease severity index on eggplant treated with various bacterial isolates at 12, 14, 18, 21, and 24 days post inoculation with Verticillium dahliae conidial suspension (20 mL of 5 × 10⁶ conidia mL^–1). Each column represents the mean of 21 plants after combining the results of 3 replicated experiments (experiment I). Columns at each observation time point followed by the same letter are not significantly different according to Tukey’s HSD test at P ≤ 0.05. Vertical bars indicate standard errors.