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. 2021 Aug 26;2:100067. doi: 10.1016/j.crmicr.2021.100067

Table. 2.

Comparisons of changes associated with below microbial and enzymatic soil parameters observed in rhizosphere soil samples of plants treated with different herbicides under recommended and double dose of herbicides evaluated after 60 DAS.

Treatment MBC (μg•g  1 soil•h  1) DHA (μg TPF•g  1 soil•h  1) FDA (μg•g  1 soil•h  1) AcP (μg p‐nitrophenol released•g  1 soil•h  1) AkP (μg p‐nitrophenol released•g  1 soil•h  1)
n1 n2 n1 n2 n1 n2 n1 n2 n1 n2
T1 549.83ab 549.10ab 22.51 23.17a 34.92a 36.46a 39.58a 41.81a 34.90a 36.79a
T2 531.00cd 513.86c 20.93 20.00e 33.01b 31.33c 35.27bc 31.23e 32.63b 25.53e
T3 539.33bc 533.67bc 15.33 21.03cd 34.09a 34.14b 36.27b 38.92b 33.67ab 33.31b
T4 545.00abc 544.33ab 21.66 21.70bc 34.07a 34.02b 36.50b 36.94c 32.13b 31.42bc
T5 514.88d 484.87d 20.03 18.82f 29.77c 28.92d 33.80c 32.50de 28.13c 26.10de
T6 533.71bc 538.67ab 21.81 21.73b 34.00ab 34.17b 33.37c 33.37d 28.87c 29.20cd
T7 540.34bc 549.23ab 21.00 21.47bcd 34.03ab 35.07ab 37.00b 37.47bc 33.83ab 34.30ab
T8 558.45a 558.63a 20.75 23.06a 34.93a 35.20ab 40.03a 40.30a 34.80a 35.83a
CD(0.05) 16.94 22.98 ns 0.70 1.06 1.49 2.01 1.78 1.98 3.17

MBC: microbial biomass carbon, FDA: fluroscein diacetate activity, DHA: dehydrogenase activity, AcP: acid phosphatase and AkP: alkaline phosphatase ns: non-significant. Similar alphabets corresponding to different numbers represent treatments which do not have significantly variance analyzed at 5% level of significance.