Halotolerant Rhizobacterial Strains Mitigate the Adverse Effects of NaCl Stress in Soybean Seedlings

Table 2

Types and quantity of organic acids in the culture broth of rhizospheric bacteria.

	Malic acid	Quinic acid	Succinic acid	Lactic acid	Acetic acid	Butyric acid	Gallic acid
Arthrobacter woluwensis AK1	ND	1.53 ± 0.7^AB	2.58 ± 0.7^A	ND	2.38 ± 0.8^A	0.33 ± 0.5^B	ND
Microbacterium oxydans AK2	4.62 ± 0.8^A	1.58 ± 0.6^C	2.75 ± 0.8^B	1.87 ± 0.4^C	5.51 ± 0.9^A	2.51 ± 0.8^B	ND
Arthrobacter aurescens AK3	2.36 ± 0.6^A	2.62 ± 0.9^A	0.94 ± 0.7^B	ND	0.61 ± 0.5^B	ND	ND
Bacillus megaterium AK4	ND	0.05 ± 01^B	ND	ND	1.64 ± 02^A	ND	0.04 ± 01^B
Bacillus aryabhattai AK5	ND	0.06 ± 01^B	ND	ND	0.31 ± 02^A	ND	ND

Each data point is the mean of at least three replicates. Error bars represent standard errors. The bars represented with different letters are significantly different from each other as evaluated by DMRT.