The Impact of Drought and Vascular-Inhabiting Pathogen Invasion in Pinus taeda Health

Table 5

Least square means and standard error of various response variables in seedlings treated with different inoculations.

Variables	GH; LS Mean ± SE	LT; LS Mean ± SE	W; LS Mean ± SE	WM; LS Mean ± SE	NW; LS Mean ± SE
LL/HT	0.57 ±0.03a	0.94 ±0.03b	0.30 ±0.03c	0.29 ±0.03c	-
OL/HT	0.66 ±0.03a	1.15 ±0.03b	0.26 ±0.03c	0.28 ±0.03c	-
HTI	18.60 ±1.33ab	17.58 ±1.33b	20.43 ±1.33ab	20.59 ±1.33a	20.48 ±1.33ab
BB	1.69 ±0.21a	1.60 ±0.21a	2.09 ±0.21ab	2.01 ±0.21a	2.68 ±0.22b
Ny	5.11 ±0.46ab	4.64 ±0.45b	5.74 ±0.46a	5.56 ±0.46a	5.84 ±0.45a
Sy	3.77 ±0.24a	4.12 ±0.24ab	4.59 ±0.25bc	4.23 ±0.24ab	4.81 ±0.24c
FRY	0.96 ±0.10a	0.94 ±0.10a	1.20 ±0.10bc	1.01 ±0.10ab	1.23 ±0.10c

Note. SE: standard error, LL/HT: lesion length/seedling height, OL/HT: occlusion length/seedling height, HTI: height growth, BB: new bud-break, Ny: needle dry biomass, Sy: stem dry biomass, FRY: fine root dry biomass, GH: Grosmannia huntii, LT: Leptographium terebrantis, W: wound, WM: wound + media, NW: no wound, and NW -: not applicable. Different letters indicate Tukey pair-wise differences among different inoculations within each variable at α = 0.05.