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Table 4 Licorice seedling performance under combined effects of allelochemical addition and rhizobacterial inoculants

From: Metagenomics insights into responses of rhizobacteria and their alleviation role in licorice allelopathy

Treatment

Inoculation

Chlorophyll content (SPAD)

Shoot fresh weight (g)

Root fresh weight (g)

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I

29.98 ± 1.11 d

0.05 ± 0.003 f

0.02 ± 0.002 b

A

C

32.56 ± 1.494 c

0.24 ± 0.037 d

0.04 ± 0.004 b

N

36.51 ± 1.742 ab

0.33 ± 0.042 c

0.13 ± 0.013 ab

E

34.29 ± 2.157 bc

0.25 ± 0.032 d

0.05 ± 0.005 b

S

36.41 ± 1.507 ab

0.26 ± 0.028 d

0.07 ± 0.007 ab

W

C

35.4 ± 2.403 ab

0.33 ± 0.032 c

0.07 ± 0.003 ab

N

37.27 ± 0.935 a

0.65 ± 0.071 b

0.13 ± 0.012 ab

E

37.59 ± 1.391 a

0.82 ± 0.05 a

0.18 ± 0.008 a

S

36.94 ± 1.517 a

0.34 ± 0.031 c

0.12 ± 0.238 ab

Group

F_values

21.28

288.04

3.94

P_values

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

  1. Values within the same column followed by different letters indicate significant differences (P < 0.05; one-way ANOVA, Tukey’s HSD test). Bold P-values indicate significant differences (P < 0.05)
  2. A allelochemical treatment, W water treatment, I initial sampling stage, C control: no inoculants, N Novosphingobium resinovorum inoculants, E Ensifer sesbaniae inoculants, S synthetic inoculants