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

Table 4

Effect of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria antagonists on dry weight of tomato plants under greenhouse conditions.

Treatment	Maya variety		Melkesalsa variety
	Shoot dry weight (g)	Root dry weight (g)	Shoot dry weight (g)	Root dry weight (g)
	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)
BDUA1 + RS	4.16 ± 0.16^c	0.59 ± 0.02^b	3.63 ± 0.01^bc	0.48 ± 0.01^bc
BDUA2 + RS	3.80 ± 0.24^bc	0.54 ± 0.03^b	3.12 ± 0.75^bc	0.41 ± 0.10^bc
BDUA3 + RS	2.63 ± 0.51^ab	0.37 ± 0.07^a	2.85 ± 0.56^abc	0.37 ± 0.07^abc
BDUA1 + BDUA2 + RS	2.37 ± 0.31^a	0.34 ± 0.04^a	2.52 ± 0.07^abc	0.33 ± 0.01^abc
BDUA1 + BDUA3 + RS	1.81 ± 0.08^a	0.25 ± 0.01^a	1.93 ± 0.07^ab	0.25 ± 0.00^ab
BDUA2 + BDUA3 + RS	1.96 ± 0.09^a	0.27 ± 0.01^a	2.10 ± 0.28^abc	0.27 ± 0.03^abc
RS	1.45 ± 0.04^a	0.21 ± 0.01^a	1.24 ± 0.28^a	0.16 ± 0.03^a
HC	4.40 ± 0.06^c	0.62 ± 0.01^b	3.77 ± 0.20^c	0.49 ± 0.02^c

Mean followed by similar superscript letters 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.