Table 5 Disease assessment and plant-growth-promoting attributes for evaluating biocontrol mechanisms.

From: Antagonistic potential and biological control mechanisms of Pseudomonas strains against banded leaf and sheath blight disease of maize

Treatments

Disease incidence (%)

Lesion length(cm)

Shoot length (cm)

Average fresh weight/plant (g)

Average biomass/plant (g)

AB.CON

0.00a

0.00a

49.05 ± 3.03a

17.60 ± 0.62b

3.37 ± 0.15b

 + CONB

23.33 ± 2.88b

3.80 ± 0.17de

79.85 ± 1.77d

1.78 ± 2.00a

3.16 ± 0.23ab

 − CONB

99.50 ± 4.76f

7.20 ± 0.53f

41.25 ± 3.25a

14.05 ± 1.48a

2.33 ± 0.25a

AS19B1

50.00 ± 0.00e

3.98 ± 0.08de

70.47 ± 4.15c

34.81 ± 1.48de

6.46 ± 0.74d

AS19B2

48.89 ± 4.39de

3.33 ± 0.85d

51.20 ± 0.90a

22.48 ± 1.77c

4.46 ± 0.46c

AS19B3

36.67 ± 2.64c

1.47 ± 0.16b

76.33 ± 2.70cd

40.51 ± 1.81f

8.99 ± 0.85e

AS21B1

48.59 ± 4.39de

1.48 ± 0.03b

60.82 ± 1.26b

36.42 ± 1.34e

6.25 ± 0.53d

AS21B2

67.22 ± 3.52e

4.13 ± 0.19e

81.90 ± 1.92e

32.45 ± 1.94d

6.13 ± 0.67d

AS21B3

35.56 ± 2.63c

1.60 ± 0.09b

78.10 ± 1.68d

37.01 ± 0.51e

8.83 ± 0.69e

Standard Error Mean

1.583

0.068

0.258

0.294

0.108

  1. Means in each column followed by the same letter were not significantly different (p < 0.05) as determined by the one-way ANOVA and Duncan’s multiple range test (DMRT). Values were the means of three replications ± standard deviation.