Assessment of genetic diversity and plant growth promoting attributes of psychrotolerant bacteria allied with wheat (Triticum aestivum) from the northern hills zone of India

Table 4 Diversity indices for the isolates from wheat growing at five different sites in the NHZ of India

	Jammu and Kashmir	Himachal Pradesh	Uttarakhand	Sikkim	West Bengal
No. of isolates	43	55	75	31	43
Species richness	23	25	33	21	19
Evenness (J´)	0.92	0.92	0.90	0.93	0.90
Shannon (H)	3.05	3.13	3.40	2.97	2.85
Simpson’s (D)	0.94	0.95	0.96	0.94	0.93
Chao-1	25.55	25.77	35.15	28.33	19.6
Niche specific bacteria	Pseudomonas peli, P. mediterranea, P. geniculata, Bacillus muralis	P. fragi, P. rhodesiae, A. methylotrophus	Providencia sp., P. koreensis, P. azotoformans, L. adecarboxylata	Klebsiella sp., P. syringae, P. extremorientalis	B. horikoshii, Achromobacter piechaudii

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