Growth promotion and protection of lentil (Lens esculenta) against herbicide stress by Rhizobium species

Annals of Microbiology

Table 3 Effect of three concentrations of quizalafop-p-ethyl on growth and nodulation of lentil plants grown in soil inoculated with Rhizobium sp. isolate MRL3 and without bioinoculant

Treatment	Dose rate (μg kg⁻¹ soil)	Length/ plant (cm)				Dry biomass (mg/ plant)				Nodulation				Total dry biomass (g/plant)
		Root		Shoot		Root		Shoot		No./plant		Dry biomass (mg/plant)		Total dry biomass (g/plant)
		90 DAS	120 DAS	90 DAS	120 DAS	90 DAS	120 DAS	90 DAS	120 DAS	90 DAS	120 DAS	90 DAS	120 DAS	90 DAS	120 DAS
Uninoculated	Control	17	21	20	31	366	536	1,076	1,966	19	38	30	74	1.47	2.57
	40	8	16	13	18	220	260	600	1,166	−	26	−	36	0.82	1.46
	80	6	13	9	12	173	220	486	833	−	21	−	31	0.66	1.08
	120	3	11	4	10	120	160	380	730	−	14	−	27	0.50	0.92
Inoculated	Control	20	24	28	34	570	706	2,130	3,433	28	42	72	84	2.77	4.23
	40	12	19	16	19	213	477	1,130	1,800	27	33	25	48	1.37	2.33
	80	9	17	12	14	173	445	730	1,533	20	31	18	39	0.92	2.02
	120	5	13	5	11	126	323	500	1,233	18	16	12	30	0.64	1.59
LSD		1.8	1.2	1.4	2.2	3.2	3.0	7.5	9.2	1.3	1.9	0.8	1.3	7.4	10.5
F value	Inoculation (df = 1)	639*	346*	428*	517*	3,487*	2,182*	518*	1,649*	613*	872.4*	712*	544*	6,912*	2,019*
	Herbicide (df = 3)	171.4*	35.3*	125*	64.8*	829*	239*	105*	412*	85.6*	65.4*	105.3*	104.1*	1,306*	276*
	Inoculation × herbicide (df = 3)	25.4*	27.6*	51.4*	21.2*	539*	472*	214*	127*	27.4*	32.2*	91.5*	34.6*	1,203*	519.2*

Values are mean of three replicates where each replicate constituted three plants/pot
*Significantly different from the control at P ≤ 0.05

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