Table 3: Morphological and physiological indicators in leaves of tomato plants, variety Chaika, infected with bacterial canker and pre-treated with cell suspensions of PGPB.

Indicators Healthy Plants Infected Plants Treatment of Plants Before
Infection
Pseudomonas Fluo-rescens Bacillus
subtilis 		Azotobac-ter chro-ococcum
Specific surface density of a leaf, mg/sm2 4.78±
0.18		 4.05±
0.14¤ 		5.58±
0.24*¥ 		5.88±
0.22*¥ 		5.74±
0.24*¥
Total chlorophyll а+b, mg/g 2.23±
0.05		 1.88±
0.02¤ 		2.91±
0.05*¥ 		4.1±
0.09*¥ 		3.56±
0.08*¥
Carotenoids k, mg/g 0.83±
0.03		 0.65±
0.03¤ 		1.13±
0.04*¥ 		1.31±
0.08*¥ 		1.21±
0.03*¥
Total chlorophyll а+b/k 2.69±
0.04		 2.5±
0.03¤ 		3.06±
0.03*¥ 		3.13±
0.03*¥ 		3.21±
0.04*¥
Chlorophylline index, g/m2 1.31±
0.06		 1.12±
0.04¤ 		1.52±
0.04*¥ 		1.58±
0.05*¥ 		1.6±
0.03*¥
Net productivity of photosynthesis, g/m2•day 8.75±
0.32		 7.6±
0.24¤ 		13.2±
0.42*¥ 		14.2±
0.36*¥ 		13.8±
0.34*¥

* ‒ statistically significant differences between the infected plants and PGPB pre-treated plants (p<0.05), ¥ ‒ statistically significant differences between the healthy plants and PGPB pre-treated plants (p<0.05), ¤ ‒ statistically significant differences between the infected plants and the healthy plants.