Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Biocontrol of Tomato Bacterial Wilt Caused by Ralstonia solanacearum

Table 3

Effect of bacterial antagonists on the fresh weight of tomato plants under greenhouse conditions.

Treatments	Maya variety		Melkesalsa variety
	Shoot fresh weight (g)	Root fresh weight (g)	Shoot fresh weight (g)	Root fresh weight (g)
	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)
BDUA1 + RS	19.81 ± 0.77^c	2.23 ± 0.08^c	17.30 ± 0.08^bc	2.08 ± 0.01^bc
BDUA2 + RS	18.12 ± 1.17^bc	2.04 ± 0.13^bc	14.88 ± 3.61^bc	1.78 ± 0.43^bc
BDUA3 + RS	12.54 ± 2.44^ab	1.42 ± 0.27^ab	13.56 ± 2.66^abc	1.62 ± 0.3^abc 2
BDUA1 + BDUA2 + RS	11.29 ± 1.48^a	1.27 ± 0.1^a 7	12.04 ± 0.35^abc	1.44 ± 0.04^abc
BDUA1 + BDUA3 + RS	8.62 ± 0.40^a	0.97 ± 0.04^a	9.20 ± 0.34^ab	1.00 ± 0.04^ab
BDUA2 + BDUA3 + RS	9.36 ± 0.44^a	1.06 ± 0.05^a	10.03 ± 1.36^abc	1.20 ± 0.16^abc
RS	6.93 ± 0.22^a	0.78 ± 0.02^a	5.92 ± 1.35^a	0.71 ± 0.16^a
HC	20.94 ± 0.33^c	2.37 ± 0.03^c	17.97 ± 0.95^c	2.16 ± 0.11^c

Means value followed by similar superscript letters in a column are not significantly different in the Tukey’s test (α = 0.05). RS, Ralstonia solanacearum (positive control), HC, negative control, and SE, standard error.