Endophytic fungi Beauveria bassiana Balsamo accelerates growth of common bean (Phaeseolus vulgaris L.)

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 2 Average plant growth parameters at 10 and 20 dpi (days post-inoculation)

Treatment	Plant height (cm)		Number of leaves (sheet)		Root length (cm)
Treatment	10 dpi	20 dpi	10 dpi	20 dpi	10 dpi	20 dpi
Control of seed-soaking	17.75^a	41.75^a	6.50^a	15.75^a	8.75^a	23.25^a
Control of leaf-spraying	32.25^bc	54.50^abc	11.75^ab	21.75^ab	21.75^b	33.25^b
Control of soil-wetting	25.25^ab	60.00^bc	9.00^a	25.25^bc	24.00^b	36.00^b
Seed-soaking	20.00^ab	51.00^ab	6.50^a	20.75^ab	9.50^a	31.00^ab
Leaf-spraying	43.50^cd	67.75^c	16.75^bc	29.00^c	30.00^c	38.25^b
Soil-wetting	49.25^d	68.50^c	19.25^c	29.75^c	32.25^c	40.50^b

Numbers followed by the same letter in a column are not significantly different at the Duncan test (p = 0.05); data are transformed using the formula (√ (x + 0.5)) for the purposes of statistical analysis