Annals of Microbiology

Table 8 RLD at different sampling dates and biomass components at the end of experimental runs expressed on per plant basis

From: The effect of crop species on DNase-producing bacteria in two soils

	Experiment 1 (soil A)					Experiment 2 (soil B)
	Sampling date					Sampling date
	1 (49)^*	2 (63)^*	3 (92)^*			1 (32)^*	2 (59)^*	3 (89)^*
Crop	RLD			SBPP	RBPP	RLD			SBPP	RBPP
Alfalfa	0.83^b	1.05^a	1.12^a	3.96^a	4.40^a	0.36^b	0.52^b	2.03^a	2.06^c	1.75^a
Canola	0.78^b	0.70^b	1.03^a	1.96^bc	0.80^b	0.87^a	1.30^a	1.24^b	2.72^ab	1.93^a
Soybean	1.16^a	0.71^b	0.89^a	2.37^b	0.88^b	0.94^a	1.22^a	1.16^b	2.34^bc	0.93^b
Wheat	0.73^b	0.33^c	0.54^b	1.64^c	1.02^b	0.67^a	0.51^b	0.43^c	3.11^a	1.00^b
SEM	0.097	0.089	0.097	0.181	0.278	0.116	0.113	0.147	0.197	0.211
P value	0.027	0.0004	0.001	< .0001	0.0002	0.003	< .0001	< .0001	0.011	0.012

^*Days after planting
Abbreviations: RLD root length density, SBPP shoot biomass per plant, RBPP root biomass per plant
Mean separation done for each sampling date within each experimental run
^a,b,cMeans with different letters within columns indicate statistical differences between treatments at P < 0.05.
P values in bold indicate statistical significance at P < 0.05

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