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Table 1 Effects of different treatments on maize growth and inoculation responsiveness

From: Combined inoculation with dark septate endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: synergistic or competitive growth effects on maize?

Treatments

Height (cm)

Ground diameter (mm)

Leaf area

(cm2)

Shoot fresh biomass (g)

Root fresh biomass (g)

Shoot dried biomass (g)

Root dried biomass (g)

Inoculation responsiveness (%)

CK

35.47 ± 4.83b

0.54 ± 0.02d

192.72 ± 33.32d

8.89 ± 3.54c

1.7 ± 0.82e

1.32 ± 0.39c

0.74 ± 0.29d

None

AM

63.8 ± 4.62a

1.07 ± 0.08ab

767.67 ± 107.50abc

30.68 ± 3.88ab

8.05 ± 0.51bc

4.11 ± 0.70ab

2.92 ± 0.39abc

70.72

LD

39.97 ± 4.29b

0.56 ± 0.02d

176.4 ± 27.44d

6.38 ± 1.90c

1.26 ± 0.43e

1.06 ± 0.31c

0.72 ± 0.12d

−16.16

MD

45 ± 4.50b

0.75 ± 0.05c

283.28 ± 27.99d

10.31 ± 1.94c

3.94 ± 0.82d

1.99 ± 0.30bc

1.83 ± 0.56 cd

46.07

HD

59.1 ± 4.76a

0.99 ± 0.01b

644.19 ± 63.73bc

23.71 ± 4.05b

6.22 ± 0.13c

3.86 ± 0.33b

2.63 ± 0.30bc

68.28

AM + LD

61.33 ± 5.69a

1.06 ± 0.07ab

635.04 ± 52.19c

25.89 ± 2.35b

8.92 ± 0.85ab

4.11 ± 0.98ab

3.38 ± 0.63ab

72.50

AM + MD

64.37 ± 2.76a

1.08 ± 0.03ab

789.88 ± 8.98ab

28.06 ± 1.19ab

10.67 ± 0.31a

3.81 ± 0.42b

3.65 ± 0.50ab

72.37

AM + HD

65.63 ± 5.28a

1.16 ± 0.11a

873.51 ± 45.56a

35.38 ± 4.97a

10.78 ± 0.98a

6.12 ± 1.59a

4.15 ± 0.79a

79.94

  1. CK, treatments with sterilized DSE and AMF; AM, sterilized DSE with AMF; LD, low concentration of DSE with sterilized AMF; MD, medium concentration of DSE with sterilized AMF; HD, high concentration of DSE with sterilized AMF. AM + LD → AM + HD, different concentration of DSE and AMF. Data followed by different letters in the same column are significantly different at P < 0.05