Table 1.

Microbial inoculations applied in this study

	Treatments	Species
1	Uninoculated	No microbes
2	Rh	R. laguerreae (LS 1.6)
3	Rh/PGPB consortia	R. laguerreae (LS 1.6) B. simplex (LC 2.3) B. subtilis (LC 3.5) B. megaterium (LC 5.2)
4	RI	R. irregularis MUCL 43,204
5	RI/PGPB consortia	R. irregularis MUCL 43,204 B. simplex (LC 2.3) B. subtilis (LC 3.5) B. megaterium (LC 5.2)
6	AMF consortium	AMF species as detailed in Fig. 1
7	AMF/PGPB consortia	AMF species as detailed in Fig. 1 B. simplex (LC 2.3) B. subtilis (LC 3.5) B. megaterium (LC 5.2)