Fig. 1

Growth of Chinese cabbages treated with different fertilizers (a) Phenotypes by different fertilizer treatments. (b) The plants’ plant length, chlorophyll content, leaf length, and width, and fresh and dry weight at 57 days after planting. The line colors represent the different fertilizer treatments (red; CLF, black; FLM, blue; LBF). The values are the mean ± standard deviation (n = 9). Lowercase letters indicate significant differences (P < 0.05) between groups by the Duncan test. CLF chemical liquid fertilizer, FLM fermented liquid manure, LBF liquid bio-fertilizer.