Table 10.

Effect of Bacillus strains, cotton cultivars, and their interactions on content of total phenols (mg gallic acid/g) and lipid peroxidation (nmol/cm) of cotton seedlings

Bacillus strains	Cotton cultivars
	V1	V2	V3	V4	Mean
Total phenols
B1	3.46	2.58	2.57	1.95	2.64
B2	2.72	2.48	2.18	2.79	2.54
B3	2.13	2.79	2.52	2.85	2.58
B4	3.06	2.89	3.01	2.81	2.94
B5	2.45	2.53	1.43	1.55	1.99
B6	2.85	2.45	2.19	2.33	2.45
B7	2.29	2.95	2.86	3.14	2.81
B8	3.04	3.73	3.61	4.02	3.60
Control	1.54	2.63	2.14	2.20	2.13
Mean	2.62	2.78	2.50	2.63	2.63
LSD (P ≤ 0.05) for Bacillus × cultivar	0.68
Lipid peroxidation
B1	249.67	167.33	177.00	103.00	174.25
B2	473.00	164.33	86.67	153.00	219.25
B3	187.00	164.67	108.00	88.33	137.00
B4	326.33	145.33	201.67	307.00	245.08
B5	231.00	222.33	267.67	194.00	228.75
B6	253.67	320.00	276.33	339.00	297.25
B7	279.00	244.33	272.00	264.67	265.00
B8	365.33	395.00	296.00	388.00	361.08
Control	132.67	187.67	223.33	191.33	183.75
Mean	277.52	223.44	212.07	225.37	234.60
LSD (P≤0.05) for Bacillus × cultivar	104.06

LSD, least significant difference.