Table 1. Salt-tolerance and plant growth-promoting traits of selected bacterial isolates under 1M NaCl concentration.
| Bacterial isolates | Salt-tolerance characters | Plant growth-promoting characters | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS (g L-1) | Floc yield (g L-1) | Biofilm (590nm) | Sodium uptake (mg L-1) | IAA (μg mL-1) | P Solubilization (μg mL-1) | K Solubilization (mg L-1) | Nitrogen fixation | |
| UPMRA4 | 13.32c | 16.79b | 0.62d | 8.4c | 10.08b | 13.42b | 3.22c | - |
| UPMRB9 | 22.81a | 21.36a | 1.36a | 21.58a | 12.86a | 18.54b | 4.75b | ++ |
| UPMRE3 | 15.54bc | 8.80c | 0.43e | 2.4d | 6.43c | 12.69b | 3.98bc | + |
| UPMRE6 | 20.88ab | 21.97a | 1.26b | 13.86b | 9.21b | 27.73a | 6.93a | ++ |
| UPMRG1 | 17.19abc | 11.10c | 1.13c | 11.62b | 10.97a | 14.67b | 3.98bc | ++ |
| MSD(0.05) | 5.71 | 2.88 | 0.07 | 4.09 | 1.85 | 5.85 | 0.945 | |
Note: ’+’ indicates positive, ’-’ indicates negative; means having the same letter in a column do not differ significantly using tukey (HSD) at P>0.05.