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Table 2 Effect of drought stress on total bacterial, fungal and actinomycetes counts (colony forming unit) in rhizosphere of four rice genotypes

From: Alteration in expression level of some growth and stress-related genes after rhizobacteria inoculation to alleviate drought tolerance in sensitive rice genotype

Treatments

Genotype

Measurements

Total bacteria

Total fungus

Total actinomycetes

CFU/ g soil 106

CFU/ g soil

CFU/ g soil 106

Control

Orabi3

20.47 ± 1.97a

3.20 ± 0.72a

0.497 ± 0.060a

Vandana

17.40 ± 0.92b

3.57 ± 0.68a

0.563 ± 0.093a

IR64

17.00 ± 0.62b

2.67 ± 0.81a

0.430 ± 0.044b

G177

19.80 ± 2.00a

3.40 ± 0.66a

0.397 ± 0.059b

Mean ± SD

18.67 ± 2.02A

3.21 ± 0.71A

0.472 ± 0.088A

Drought (stress)

Orabi3

18.57 ± 1.05a

2.83 ± 0.55a

0.463 ± 0.025b

Vandana

15.43 ± 0.78ab

2.63 ± 0.59a

0.743 ± 0.085a

IR64

14.40 ± 0.82b

1.77 ± 0.45a

0.330 ± 0.076c

G177

17.27 ± 1.36a

2.97 ± 0.32a

0.347 ± 0.070c

Mean ± SD

16.42 ± 1.90B

2.55 ± 0.64B

0.471 ± 0.182A

Two-way ANOVA P-values

 Treatments

0.011

0.036

0.820NS

 Genotype

0.0020

0.1710NS

0.0000

 Interaction (treatments × genotype)

0.000

0.008

0.000

  1. Different letters means significant diffrence, small letters point to the significant between treatments, capital letterspoint to the significant between means
  2. NS means not significant