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. 2022 Apr 20;16(8):1907–1920. doi: 10.1038/s41396-022-01238-3

Fig. 4. Growth promotion of the SynComs and individual Jizan strains on salt-stressed tomato plants.

Fig. 4

a The dry shoot weight of three-week-old tomato plants grown in the non-sterile substrate and inoculated with either a single Jizan strain or the SynCom as an equimolar mixture. Salt imposition was with 200 mM NaCl according to the assay described previously (Fig. S4). The SynCom (colored in blue) performed best and together with the strains Ensifer sp. SA403, Ralstonia sp. SA424, Massilia sp. SA087, Bacillus sp. SA436 were significantly different from the control plants (colored in green) which were not inoculated. b Ratios of the shoot dry weight of tomato plants treated with simplified SynComs to the control. Each SynCom contained four or five Jizan strains and the control was not inoculated. The five member SynCom C performed the best and was the only one significantly different to the control. Asterisk indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05) as per Dunnett’s test.