Improvement of Nutrient Uptake, Yield of Black Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.), and Alluvial Soil Fertility in Dyke by Spent Rice Straw from Mushroom Cultivation as Biofertilizer Containing Potent Strains of Rhodopseudomonas palustris

Table 4

Effects of different levels of a mixture of four strains of Rhodopseudomonas palustris in spent rice straw and chemical fertilizer on nutrient uptake in parts of sesame grown in dyked alluvial soil under the greenhouse condition.

Factor	Nitrogen uptake			Phosphorus uptake			Potassium uptake
	(g pot^−1)
	Stem and leaf	Shell	Seed	Stem and leaf	Shell	Seed	Stem and leaf	Shell	Seed
Biofertilizer level (A) (t ha^−1)
0	0.010^c	0.009^d	0.083^c	0.035^c	0.027^d	0.072^c	0.322^b	0.092^c	0.012^c
3	0.014^b	0.011^c	0.107^b	0.045^b	0.032^c	0.087^b	0.423^a	0.117^b	0.017^b
4	0.015^b	0.013^b	0.122^a	0.045^b	0.039^a	0.099^a	0.418^a	0.122^b	0.020^a
5	0.018^a	0.014^a	0.122^a	0.051^a	0.035^b	0.098^a	0.455^a	0.168^a	0.020^a
Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer level (B) (%)
100	0.018^a	0.015^a	0.141^a	0.052^a	0.039^a	0.111^a	0.466^a	0.152^a	0.022^a
75	0.013^b	0.011^b	0.101^b	0.044^b	0.031^b	0.084^b	0.416^b	0.120^b	0.016^b
50	0.012^b	0.009^c	0.085^c	0.036^c	0.029^b	0.072^c	0.331^c	0.101^c	0.014^c
Significant differences
(A)
(B)
(AB)			ns			ns			ns
C.V. (%)	12.7	9.89	5.05	12.3	1.08	5.06	8.39	2.38	1.34

In a column, the different superscripts indicate significant differences according to Duncan’s post hoc test at 5% level (, ). Values are means of four replications.