Induction of Osmoregulation and Modulation of Salt Stress in Acacia gerrardii Benth. by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Bacillus subtilis (BERA 71)

Table 2

Effect of salinity stress (250 mM NaCl) on ash content, total lipids, lignin, tannin, and fiber content (neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF)) in Acacia gerrardii with and without arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and Bacillus subtilis (Bs). Data presented are the means ± SE ().

Treatments		Nutritional value
		Ash content (%)	Total lipid content (%)	Lignin	Tannin	⁢Fiber content (%)
						ADF	NDF
Control	Control	45.0	2.75	46.9	1.65	119.7	277.0
	Bs	32.3	3.52	40.6	1.98	145.7	299.4
	AMF	36.6	2.90	52.4	1.75	132.8	282.0
	AMF + Bs	30.6	3.53	49.6	2.26	154.5	310.7
250 mM NaCl	Control	63.1	0.95	81.0	5.97	148.9	149.1
	Bs	50.1	1.93	61.7	3.14	212.9	213.6
	AMF	57.2	1.37	77.5	4.01	192.4	194.2
	AMF + Bs	48.6	2.23	71.6	2.79	221.1	219.4
LSD at 0.05%		1.62	0.08	1.56	0.16	2.38	4.11
Coefficient of variance		4.136	4.311	2.997	6.305	1.659	1.955