Involvement of plant endogenous ABA in Bacillus megaterium PGPR activity in tomato plants

BMC Plant Biology

Table 2 Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)

	Significance of sources of vatiation
WT/*Flacca*	PGPR (P)	Genotype (G)	PxG
Parameter measured
Total DW	ns	***	**
Shoot DW	ns	***	**
Root DW	ns	***	ns
Height	ns	***	ns
Stomatal conductance	ns	***	ns
ABA	ns	***	ns
ACC	ns	***	**
Ethylene	***	ns	ns
Sl-PR1b	**	***	***
Sl-ACO4	*	ns	ns
Sl-ACS7	**	***	***
Sl-NCED	ns	***	***
WT/ *Sitiens*	PGPR (P)	Genotype (G)	PxG
Parameter measured
Total DW	ns	***	*
Shoot DW	ns	***	*
Root DW	ns	***	ns
Height	ns	***	ns
Stomatal conductance	ns	***	ns

Significance of the sources of variation are PGPR (P), Genotype (G) and PGPR x Genotype (PxG).
*P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01; ***P ≤ 0.001; ns, not significant.

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