Table 3.

Percentage and time of germination of tomato seeds inoculated with rhizobacterial consortia from C. longiscapa at presowing and sowing.

Inoculation time	Consortium	Germination (%)	Germination time (days)
Pre-sowing	Control	90 ± 5* b†	8 ± 5 b
	A	90 ± 5 b	9 ± 5 b
	B	97 ± 1 a	12 ± 3 a
	C	92 ± 2 b	10 ± 3 a
Sowing	Control	86 ± 8 b	18 ± 2 a
	A	83 ± 8 b	12 ± 3 b
	B	91 ± 2 a	15 ± 4 b
	C	92 ± 2 a	10 ± 3 b

*Values represent the means ± standard deviation of 50 seeds per treatment.

^†Different letter in each column denote significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) by ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc test.