Table 1.
Proline, IAA, HCN production by selected PGPR strains and detection of NH3.
Table 2.
Chemical characterization of exopolysaccharides (EPS).
Fig 1.
Chlorophyll content and performance index of drought sensitive (G1) and tolerant (G2) wheat genotypes grown under rainfed field condition.
Data are means of four replicates along with standard error bars. Different significance levels were denoted with different letters. For treatments with the same letter, the difference is not statistically significant and those with a different letter, the difference is statistically significant (P < 0.05) within treatments.
Fig 2.
Chlorophyll fluorescence in the leaves of drought sensitive (G1) and tolerant (G2) wheat genotypes grown under rainfed field condition.
Data are means of four replicates along with standard error bars. Different significance levels were denoted with different letters. For treatments with the same letter, the difference is not statistically significant and those with a different letter, the difference is statistically significant (P < 0.05) within treatments.
Fig 3.
Leaf protein, sugar and phenolic contents of drought sensitive (G1) and tolerant (G2) wheat genotypes grown under rainfed field condition.
Data are means of four replicates along with standard error bars. Different significance levels were denoted with different letters. For treatments with the same letter, the difference is not statistically significant and those with a different letter, the difference is statistically significant (P < 0.05) within treatments.
Fig 4.
Leaf proline content and lipid peroxidation in the leaves of drought sensitive (G1) and tolerant (G2) wheat genotypes grown under rainfed field condition.
Data are means of four replicates along with standard error bars. Different significance levels were denoted with different letters. For treatments with the same letter, the difference is not statistically significant and those with a different letter, the difference is statistically significant (P < 0.05) within treatments.
Fig 5.
Antioxidant enzymes activities in the leaves of drought sensitive (G1) and tolerant (G2) wheat genotypes grown under rainfed field condition.
Data are means of four replicates along with standard error bars. Different significance levels were denoted with different letters. For treatments with the same letter, the difference is not statistically significant and those with a different letter, the difference is statistically significant (P < 0.05) within treatments.
Fig 6.
Shoot and root fresh weights of drought sensitive (G1) and tolerant (G2) wheat genotypes grown under rainfed field condition.
Data are means of four replicates along with standard error bars. Different significance levels were denoted with different letters. For treatments with the same letter, the difference is not statistically significant and those with a different letter, the difference is statistically significant (P < 0.05) within treatments.
Fig 7.
Shoot and root dry weights of drought sensitive (G1) and tolerant (G2) wheat genotypes grown under rainfed field condition.
Data are means of four replicates along with standard error bars. Different significance levels were denoted with different letters. For treatments with the same letter, the difference is not statistically significant and those with a different letter, the difference is statistically significant (P < 0.05) within treatments.
Table 3.
Relative Water Content of plant shoot and soil moisture content of rhizosphere soil.
Table 4.
Ca, Mg, Na, and K contents (mg/kg) in rhizosphere of wheat grown in rainfed conditions.
Table 5.
Cu, Cr, Zn, and Fe contents (mg/kg) in rhizosphere of wheat grown in rainfed conditions.