Table 3.
Treatments | Shoot length (cm) | Root length (cm) | No of stems | Fresh weight (gram) | Relative water content (%) | Electrolyte leakage (%) | Chlorophyll content | ||
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Chlorophyll a (mg/g) | Chlorophyll b (mg/g) | Carotenoids (mg/g) | |||||||
Control | 61.01 ± 0.81b | 3.77 ± 0.52b | 2.66 ± 2.39b | 56.60 ± 0.47c | 51.36 ± 1.06c | 41.40 ± 2.79b | 0.43 ± 0.01c | 0.65 ± 0.02b | 3.93 ± 0.12c |
T1 | 76.66 ± 0.47a | 7.53 ± 0.41a | 4.33 ± 1.81a | 76.13 ± 0.47a | 62.23 ± 2.00a | 35.20 ± 0.91c | 0.72 ± 0.03a | 0.84 ± 0.02a | 4.66 ± 0.20a |
T2 | 69.01 ± 1.63ab | 6.66 ± 0.47a | 3.66 ± 2.09a | 56.96 ± 0.47c | 59.4 ± 1.47ab | 33.80 ± 1.07c | 0.55 ± 0.03b | 0.67 ± 0.02b | 4.26 ± 0.08b |
T3 | 51.80 ± 1.88c | 2.66 ± 0.30c | 1.66 ± 0.94c | 38.66 ± 0.47d | 46.83 ± 1.16d | 57.66 ± 3.29a | 0.33 ± 0.02d | 0.33 ± 0.03c | 2.83 ± 0.12d |
T4 | 70.84 ± 5.51a | 6.99 ± 0.24a | 4.01 ± 1.94a | 65.99 ± 0.00b | 58.63 ± 1.38b | 33.40 ± 1.44c | 0.60 ± 0.01b | 0.83 ± 0.04a | 4.77 ± 0.08a |
Effects of different treatments on growth of potato plants in green house. Control= uninoculated; T1 = B. subtilis PM32 inoculation; T2 = B. subtilis PM32 and R. solani inoculation; T3 = R. solani inoculation; T4 = R. solani + Fungicide (KOCIDE 3000). The treatments exhibit dissimilar letters within rows represent significance at P ≤ 0.05 level