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 |