Compatibility of Azospirillum brasilense with Pesticides Used for Treatment of Maize Seeds

Table 2

Shoot attributes of maize whose seeds were treated or not with pesticide and were inoculated or not with Azospirillum brasilense strains Ab-V5 and Ab-V6.

Treatments	Plant height (cm)	Culm diameter (mm)	Shoot dry mass (g)
NPNI	71.0 Aa	10.4 Aa	3.0 Aa
WPNI	67.0 Aa	9.6 Aa	2.5 Aa
NPWI	67.7 Aa	10.0 Aa	2.7 Aa
WPWI	71.0 Aa	10.7 Aa	2.8 Aa
-value	0.702	0.835	0.0867
CV (%)	5.94%	9.82%	12.84%

Means of five replicates followed by the same letter do not differ from each other by Tukey’s test at . Uppercase letters compare means within the same pesticide condition (WP: with pesticide and NP: no pesticide) and lowercase letters compare means within the same inoculation condition (WI: with inoculation and NI: no inoculation).