Fig. 6

Representation of the growth of a rice seedling under normal and salt-stressed conditions upon treatment with NPCRE2 (AwOcstreb1) compareding with uninoculated control plants (a-d). Root length (e), shoot length (f), root weight (g), and shoot weight (h) are depicted in the box plots. The boxes on all box plots represent the first and third quartiles, while the lower and upper lines, respectively, denote the minimum and maximum values. The middle black line in each box plot denotes the median. One-way ANOVA was done for all parameters separately. Significant differences between control and treated plants were indicated by asterisks (*, **, ***) at p ≤ 0.05