S.O.V Laboratory study Greenhouse study   Disease incidence (%) Bio control efficiency (%) Disease incidence (%) Bio control efficiency (%)   1st week 4th Week 1st week 4th Week 1st week 4th Week 1st week 4th Week T1=Control 12.1*a 1 43.7 a 0 f 0 f 15 a 54 a 0 e 0 d T2=RH-33 7.8 b 31.4 b 36 e 28 e 8 b 36 b 44 cd 32 c T3=RH-32 7.7 b 29.7 b 36 e 32 e 9 b 39 b 35 d 26 c T4=RH-31 6.9 b 29.1 bc 44 d 34 e 9 b 36 b 37 d 30 c T5=RH-33+RH-32 2.7 c 15.7 c 79 c 65 d 5 c 25 c 68 c 52 bc T6=RH-33+RH-31 1.2 c 12.5 d 91 b 72 c 3 d 22 c 79 b 58 b T7=RH-32+RH-31 0.6 cd 9.0 e 95 a 80 b 3 d 21 cd 81 b 58 b T8=RH-33+RH-32+RH-31 0.1 d 5.6 f 99 a 88 a 0.1 e 14 d 99 a 74 a Treatments (T) *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Application methods (AM) *** *** ** *** * ** NS NS Pathogen *** *** *** * *** *** ** ** Treatments X AM * NS NS ** NS NS NS NS Treatments X Pathogen *** ** * NS *** NS * NS Pathogen X AM NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS S.E. Treatment means(P) 0.4 0.9 3.45 2.3 0.47 1.7 3.9 3.0 LSD Treatment means (5%) 0.7 1.9 6.8 4.6 0.93 3.3 7.8 6.0

Average of three pathogen (n=3). Means not sharing a common letter differ significantly at P=0.05; NSNon-significant; LSD Least significant differences of means at P=0.05 by ANOVA test. *P<0.05. **P<0.01. ***P<0.001. S.E.Standard error of treatment means. Pathogens=Fusarium solani, Fusarium oxysporum and Macrophomina phaseolina. RH-31=Paenibacillus illinoisensis. RH-32=Bacillus subtilis. RH-33=Pseudomonas psychrotolerans

Table 2: Disease incidence and biological control efficiency as affected by various types of rhizobacterial isolates in individual and combined application method on the root pathogens in chickpea in terms of different times (days) in Laboratory and Greenhouse study.