Table 4.
Morphological and physical parameters studied after inoculation by injecting bacterial suspension by saturating the soil with a bacterial suspension (108 CFU).
| Treatments | SFW (g) | SDW (g) | RFW (g) | RDW (g) | RLWC (%) | SL (cm) | RL (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uninoculated control | 1.38ef | 0.63g | 0.64h | 0.43h | 64.64a | 33.33cd | 14cd |
| Pseudomonas sp. | 2.156ef | 1.5003f | 0.7e | 0.54d | 85.49b | 37b | 17b |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 1.92d | 1.103g | 0.83f | 0.46e | 14.81b | 35.25bc | 20.91a |
| Bacillus megaterium | 1.45de | 0.72g | 0.75g | 0.454f | 66.31b | 25.5e | 12.416efg |
| Enterobacter hormaechei | 0.943f | 0.77j | 0.631k | 0.375f | 47.97b | 29.41d | 14.083cde |
| Brevibacillus borstelensis | 1.07g | 0.603k | 0.36j | 0.231g | 17.39b | 18.25g | 8.41h |
| Staphylococcus haemolyticus | 0.447g | 0.315k | 0.35i | 0.236i | 31.13b | 22.13f | 19.65a |
| Bacillus safensis | 2.84c | 1.97e | 0.97c | 0.65b | 68.054b | 42.5a | 11.5g |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 1.12f | 0.52i | 0.61i | 0.39h | 35.402b | 25.5e | 12.58defg |
| Bacillus cereus | 4.036c | 1.986a | 1.516c | 3.141b | 56.886b | 31.41a | 13.75fg |
| Proteus mirabilis | 2.343b | 1.2406d | 1.134d | 0.672c | 22.365b | 22.55a | 14.35bcd |
| Fisher’s LSD | 1.528 | 4.04 | 7.38 | 1.136 | 5.94 | 4.76 | 6.92 |
Values in the same column accompanied by lower-case letters do not differ significantly (P <0.05) as per Fisher's least significant difference (LSD) method.