Table 6.
Effect of Bacillus strains, cotton cultivars, and their interactions on content of total soluble sugars (mg glucose/g), total soluble proteins (mg/g), and total free amino acids (mg/g) of cotton seedlings
| Bacillus strains | Cotton cultivars | ||||
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| V1 | V2 | V3 | V4 | Mean | |
| Total soluble sugars | |||||
| B1 | 16.68 | 15.29 | 12.69 | 11.23 | 13.97 |
| B2 | 11.32 | 17.63 | 14.24 | 9.80 | 13.25 |
| B3 | 22.96 | 12.85 | 13.65 | 13.81 | 15.82 |
| B4 | 35.76 | 16.93 | 21.81 | 22.60 | 24.28 |
| B5 | 10.21 | 7.68 | 14.41 | 14.13 | 11.61 |
| B6 | 26.79 | 22.99 | 19.77 | 22.17 | 22.93 |
| B7 | 19.40 | 19.67 | 25.77 | 23.87 | 22.18 |
| B8 | 28.29 | 13.64 | 16.21 | 27.39 | 21.38 |
| Control | 7.83 | 24.53 | 21.97 | 19.31 | 18.41 |
| Mean | 19.92 | 16.80 | 17.84 | 18.26 | 18.21 |
| LSD (P ≤ 0.05) for Bacillus × cultivar | 7.09 | ||||
| Total soluble proteins | |||||
| B1 | 7.33 | 6.71 | 7.13 | 5.83 | 6.75 |
| B2 | 12.40 | 7.34 | 5.35 | 5.04 | 7.53 |
| B3 | 8.60 | 7.47 | 6.80 | 5.90 | 7.20 |
| B4 | 11.45 | 7.07 | 7.42 | 12.06 | 9.50 |
| B5 | 6.95 | 7.67 | 9.29 | 6.77 | 7.67 |
| B6 | 7.81 | 10.58 | 8.66 | 11.38 | 9.61 |
| B7 | 9.22 | 7.07 | 8.84 | 9.34 | 8.62 |
| B8 | 11.20 | 8.26 | 9.40 | 11.65 | 10.13 |
| Control | 5.51 | 6.66 | 7.24 | 6.70 | 6.53 |
| Mean | 8.94 | 7.65 | 7.79 | 8.30 | 8.17 |
| LSD (P ≤ 0.05) for Bacillus × cultivar | 2.34 | ||||
| Total free amino acids | |||||
| B1 | 28.77 | 10.07 | 11.28 | 7.60 | 14.43 |
| B2 | 6.20 | 8.78 | 13.83 | 8.47 | 9.32 |
| B3 | 29.12 | 11.18 | 10.15 | 8.75 | 14.80 |
| B4 | 8.10 | 2.40 | 3.72 | 15.53 | 7.44 |
| B5 | 21.82 | 8.60 | 9.03 | 27.72 | 16.79 |
| B6 | 14.93 | 9.93 | 6.80 | 13.55 | 11.30 |
| B7 | 13.12 | 13.43 | 6.20 | 14.12 | 11.72 |
| B8 | 3.82 | 9.00 | 7.72 | 5.52 | 6.51 |
| Control | 2.77 | 8.52 | 20.95 | 19.25 | 12.87 |
| Mean | 14.29 | 9.10 | 9.97 | 13.39 | 11.69 |
| LSD (P ≤ 0.05) for Bacillus × cultivar | 5.84 | ||||
LSD, least significant difference.