Inoculation with the endophyte Piriformospora indica significantly affects mechanisms involved in osmotic stress in rice

Rice

Table 1 Mean squares of absolute values for various seedling traits of the three rice genotypes grown in control, control + P. indica, drought and drought + P. indica

Residual	Genotype × Treatment	Treatment	Genotype	Source of variation
24	6	3	2	df
0.0018	0.055^**	3.9^**	0.0066^**	Fresh root weight
0.0035	0.067^**	13^**	0.45^*	Fresh shoot weight
0.000024	0.0027^**	0.068^**	0.00051^**	Dry root weight
0.00011	0.0076^**	0.21^**	0.0035^**	Dry shoot weight
1.7	17^**	306^**	61^**	Root length
3.7	14^*	202^**	7.2^NS	Shoot length
0.0000073	0.00066^**	0.0050^**	0.0070^**	Fv/Fm
5.7	229^**	1333^**	1088^**	Proline
0.00045	0.0056^**	0.042^**	0.0085^**	Total antioxidant capacity
0.0086	0.68^**	22^**	0.015^NS	Phosphorus in root
0.018	0.056^*	20^**	0.14^**	Phosphorus in shoot
0.0000012	0.000058^**	0.00046^**	0.000034^**	Zinc in root
0.0000029	0.00018^**	0.0020^**	0.0000087^NS	Zinc in shoot

*, ** and NS indicates significant differences at p ≤ 0.05, p ≤ 0.01 and non-significant (p > 0.05), respectively