Table 6 Effect of different treatments on sunflower plant’s oil content and protein contents.

From: Mitigation of salinity stress via improving growth, chlorophyll contents and antioxidants defense in sunflower with Bacillus pumilis and biochar

Treatments

Oil content (%)

Protein content (%)

Control (2.98 dS/m EC)

0NAT-BC

35.34 ± 0.28a

25.72 ± 0.29a

Bacillus pumilus

36.35 ± 0.42b

26.63 ± 0.39b

0.75NAT-BC

37.38 ± 0.49c

27.52 ± 0.24c

Bacillus pumilus + 0.75NAT-BC

39.08 ± 0.56d

28.49 ± 0.42d

 

SS (6.44 dS/m EC)

0NAT-BC

30.65 ± 0.68e

20.63 ± 0.27e

Bacillus pumilus

31.98 ± 0.31f

22.01 ± 0.56f

0.75NAT-BC

33.02 ± 0.6 g

23.22 ± 0.28 g

Bacillus pumilus + 0.75NAT-BC

34.13 ± 0.34 h

24.64 ± 0.42 h

  1. Values are the mean of 4 replicates ± SE. Different letters showed significant changes at p ≤ 0.05; Tukey Test. Control (2.98 dS/m EC); SS (6.44 dS/m EC) (Salinity stress). Nitrilotriacetic acid mixed biochar (NAT-BC).
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