Table 2 Morphological growth parameters of rice plant inoculated with endophytic bacterial strains under normal and salt stress after 30 days of salt treatments.

From: Salt stress mitigating potential of bacterial endophytes isolated from Moringa oleifera

Treatment

Root

Length (cm)

Shoot

length (cm)

No. of

shoots

No. of

roots

Fresh

biomass(g)

Dry

biomass(g)

Control

10.8 ± 0.3bcd

33.3 ± 0.4bc

4 ± 0.3b

16 ± 0.5b

0.39 ± 0.3c

0.11 ± 0.2 cd

Salt

7.6 ± 0.4a

29.0 ± 0.2a

3 ± 0.8a

11.6 ± 0.6a

0.29 ± 0.7ab

0.07 ± 0.2a

KR-27

11.8 ± 0.1cde

35.5 ± 0.4d

5 ± 0.5c

21 ± 1.1d

0.44 ± 0.1d

0.12 ± 0.3d

KL-4

10.1 ± 0.7bc

32.6 ± 0.7b

4.6 ± 0.3c

18 ± 0.5b

0.31 ± 0.2ab

0.1 ± 0.5bc

KS-7

11.4 ± 0.4cde

35.9 ± 0.3d

5 ± 0.6c

18.3 ± 1.2bc

0.46 ± 0.1d

0.12 ± 0.1d

Salt + KR27

10.6 ± 0.1bcd

34.7 ± 0.7 cd

5 ± 0.9c

22.6 ± 0.8d

0.33 ± 0.1b

0.12 ± 0.2d

Salt + KL-4

9.9 ± 0.3b

35.0 ± 0.9 cd

4 ± 1.2b

15.6 ± 0.8b

0.28 ± 0.1a

0.09 ± 0.2b

Salt + KS7

12.7 ± 0.2e

33.4 ± 0.3bc

5 ± 0.6c

21.6 ± 1.2d

0.32 ± 0.3ab

0.1 ± 0.2bcd

  1. Quantitative data shows mean ± SE, with different letters showing significant differences between the treatments (p ≤ 0.05).