FIGURE 8.

The concentration of nitrogen (A), phosphorus (B), potassium (C), and manganese (D) in maize roots and shoots grown with Mn solubilizing bacterial (MSB) strains; maize seeds inoculated with MSB were grown up to physiological maturity in earthen pots filled with sandy loam textural soil having native 14.36 mg kg^–1 extractable manganese and 26.90 mg kg^–1 total manganese; the uninoculated control had no inoculum and contains only broth; data presented are the mean of three replications ± standard error; the means sharing same alphabetical letters were considered non-significant to each other and least significant difference (LSD) test was performed at 5% (p ≤ 0.05) probability level.