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. 2021 Nov 2;12:719504. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.719504

FIGURE 5.

FIGURE 5

Effect of Mn solubilizing bacterial (MSB) strains on maize growth and uptake of manganese under axenic conditions; the surface-sterilized maize seeds were inoculated with MSB and grown-up to 3 weeks after germination under 16 h of light and 8 h of a dark period of axenic conditions in small pots trials; the data was recorded in terms of shoot length (A), root length (B), shoot fresh biomass (C), shoot dry biomass (D), root fresh biomass (E), and root dry biomass (F); top five best-performing strains ASH6, ASH11, ASH19, ASH20, and ASH22 were selected for identification; the control had no inoculum (uninoculated) and contains only broth; data presented are the mean of three replications ± standard error; the means sharing common letters were considered statistical similar to each other and least significant difference (LSD) test was performed at 5% (p ≤ 0.05) probability level.