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 5

Effects of nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB) on leaf area per plant (LA) in dm² and shoot dry weight per plant (g) of clary (Salvia sclarea) plants grown under two irrigation (IR) treatments.

Treatment	LA (dm^2)	SDW (g)
Irrigation (IR)
IR100	147^a	741^a
IR50	114^b	548^b
NFB
Control	95^e	490^e
B. subtilis	117^d	570^d
Ps. flu	130^c	613^c
Cyanobacteria	149^b	756^b
Trichoderma	161^a	794^a
IR × NFB
T1	119^e	566^c
T2	130^d	662^b
T3	144^c	675^b
T4	165^b	881^a
T5	176^a	921^a
T6	72^g	413^e
T7	104^f	478^d
T8	116^e	550^c
T9	134^d	632^b
T10	146^c	667^b

^†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.