Table 5. Formulated Bacillus spp. effect on jalapeño pepper seedlings growth and development of potted jalapeño pepper under greenhouse conditions¹.

Treatments	Control	BactoRacine	F-BT24	F-BC26	F-BC08	LSD
NBF	14.8 ± 1.5b	29.5 ± 9.1ab	33.3 ± 8.3ab	35.5 ± 14.6a	29.8 ± 6.2ab	19.677
LN (plant−1)	44.8 ± 2.5b	64.8 ± 5.3a	62.8 ± 5.2ab	65.0 ± 14.0a	61.5 ± 9.7ab	18.314
SD (mm)	4.5 ± 0.2b	5.4 ± 0.3a	5.4 ± 0.3a	5.6 ± 0.4a	5.3 ± 0.2a	0.6295
PH (cm)	32.8 ± 1.7b	49.3 ± 3.2a	50.0 ± 5.1a	45.8 ± 4.3a	42.8 ± 7.5ab	10.780
LW (g)	1.95 ± 0.1b	3.33 ± 0.2a	3.05 ± 1.2a	3.27 ± 0.6a	3.06 ± 0.2a	1.0629
SW (g)	2.2 ± 0.2b	4.0 ± 0.3a	3.9 ± 0.4a	3.8 ± 0.4a	3.5 ± 0.6a	0.9188
RW (g)	0.5 ± 0.1b	1.1 ± 0.1a	1.0 ± 0.4a	1.1 ± 0.2a	0.9 ± 0.2ab	0.4634
LA (cm2 plant−1)	417.2 ± 39.8b	796.1 ± 124.7a	746.4 ± 123a	771.1 ± 124a	722.9 ± 47a	218.47
RL (cm)	18.4 ± 0.5b	21.4 ± 2.5ab	24.0 ± 2.0a	22.8 ± 3.9ab	22.0 ± 1.4ab	5.1246
Chla (mg/g.gfw−1)	1.02 ± 0.12a	0.92 ± 0.19a	1.06 ± 0.26a	1.16 ± 0.11a	1.27 ± 0.04a	0.3582
Chlb (mg/g.gfw−1)	0.54 ± 0.18ab	0.32 ± 0.08b	0.57 ± 0.34ab	0.53 ± 0.19ab	0.82 ± 0.25a	0.4911
Caroteniods (mg/g.gfw−1)	0.62 ± 0.03ab	0.48 ± 0.10b	0.59 ± 0.09ab	0.59 ± 0.03ab	0.64 ± 0.01a	0.1387

Notes.

¹NBF, buds’ flowers numbers; LN, Numbers of leaves; SD, stem diameter; PH, plant height; LW, leaf dry weight; SW, stem dry weight; RW, root dry weight; LA, leaf area; RL, root length; Chla, chlorophyl “a”; Chlb, chlorophyl “b”; F-BC08 and F-BC26, formulated Bacillus cereus; and F-BT24, formulated B. thuringiensis. LSD, Least Significant Difference. Data represent means ± SD of four replicate determinations. Each value in columns followed by different letters indicates significant (P <0.05) difference by ANOVA and the Tukey test.