FIG 2.

Rice colonization efficiencies for B. vietnamiensis and P. kururiensis. Nipponbare and IR64 rice seedlings were inoculated at 5 days postgermination with 1 × 10⁷ bacterial cells, total root systems were harvested at different time points, and the associated bacterial population was estimated (P < 0.05, Wilcoxon test). The boxplots were generated using 5 replicates for each condition. Outliers are represented as black dots.