Growth Promotion of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Seedlings Using Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) Isolated from Northwest Ethiopia

Table 7

Percentage growth promotion of Bacillus and Cyanobacteria isolates on rice seedlings as compared to control.

Treatment	Rice cultivars
	Cv. X-jegna		Cv. Edget		Cv. Getachew
	Shoot length (%)	Root length (%)	Shoot length (%)	Root length (%)	Shoot length (%)	Root length (%)
B1	21.73	32.02	21	21.38	0.15	1.80
B2	11.33	16.18	34	36.18	22.8	32.08
B3	31.16	41.05	36.29	36.18	27.57	34.8
B4	28.42	32.03	7.05	6.84	28.91	34.8
B5	5.26	0.68	22.02	18.07	10.23	18.5
C1	36.84	46.29	45.79	52.44	39.04	78.27
C2 Control	37.93	50.53	50.07	52.9	39.02	61.57