Effective Microorganisms Improve Growth, Nutrients Uptake, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Photosystem II, and Essential Oil While Reducing Canopy Temperature in Water-Stressed Salvia sclarea Plants

Table 3

Effects of nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB) on oil (%), total phenol (µg/GH/g DW), and dehydrogenase activity (DA) (µg Tpf/g dry soil/day) of clary (Salvia sclarea) plants grown under two irrigation (IR) treatments.

Treatment	Oil (%)	Total phenol (µg/GH/g DW)	DA (µg tpf/g dry soil/day)
Irrigation (IR)
IR100	1.01^†b	93.2^b	177^a
IR50	1.11^a	115.4^a	123^b
NFB
Control	0.89^c	94.4^d	132^d
B. subtilis	1.02^b	99.1^cd	160^ab
Ps. flu	1.09^ab	104.1^bc	166^a
Cyanobacteria	1.21^a	108.9^b	143^c
Trichoderma	1.11^ab	114.9^a	149^bc
IR × NFB
T1	0.85^d	87.0^g	163^c
T2	0.92^cd	90.6^fg	189^ab
T3	1.01^a-d	93.2^efg	193^a
T4	1.20^a	96.0^efg	171^bc
T5	1.09^abc	99.0^def	169^c
T6	0.93^bcd	101.7^de	100^f
T7	1.12^abc	107.7^cd	130^de
T8	1.16^a	115.0^bc	140^d
T9	1.22^a	121.7^ab	114^ef
T10	1.13^ab	130.8^a	130^de

^†Mean values within the same column for each trait with the same lowercase letter are not significantly different according to Tukey’s honestly significant difference (HSD) test at . Measurements were done at 120 days after transplanting. IR100, 100% of reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo); IR50, 50% of reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo); T1, 100% ETo without nitrogen-fixing bacteria; T2, 100% ETo + B. subtilis; T3, 100% ETo + Ps. flu; T4, 100% ETo + Cyanobacteria; T5, 100% ETo + Trichoderma; T6, 50% ETo without nitrogen-fixing bacteria; T7, 50% ETo + B. subtilis; T8, 50% ETo + Ps. flu; T9, 50% ETo + Cyanobacteria; T10, 50% ETo + Trichoderma.