Impacts of Microbial Inoculants on the Growth and Yield of Maize Plant

Table 3: Effects of microbial inoculants, soil types and maize genotype on the growth of maize planted in pots.

Variables	Plant Height (cm)	Leaf Length (cm)	Plant Girth (cm)
Soil Type
Itsoseng	95.01^a	73.22^a	6.11^a
Mafikeng	95.47^a	73.53^a	6.23^a
Inoculants
Pseudomonas kilonensis F113	99.38^a	74.60^a	6.48^a
Pseudomonas protegensCHA0	96.36^b	71.09^b	6.01^b
Non inoculated	90.29^c	74.60^a	6.09^b
Maize Genotype
Aflatoxin SYN 4W	95.37^a	74.04^a	6.29^a
TZB SR	96.67^a	74.40^a	6.17^ab
Aflatoxin R SYN 2Y	96.41^a	74.03^b	6.19^ab
Aflatoxin SYN 3W	97.52^a	74.74^a	6.28^a
Aflatoxin SYN -2Y	90.74^b	69.93^b	6.04^b
Treatment Effects
Soil Type	0.958	0.948	0.064
Inoculant	0.000	0.000	0.000
Maize genotype	0.006	0.005	0.011
Soil Type × Inoculant	0.224	0.955	0.319
Soil type × maize genotype	0.001	0.008	0.000
Inoculant × maize genotype	0.000	0.000	0.000
Soil type × Inoculant ×maizegenotype	0.502	0.508	0.000