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. 2021 Dec 13;16(12):e0260869. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260869

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.