Peanut plant dry weight of carbendazim-treated plants was not significantly different from plants co-inoculated with TAL 173 and any of the PGPR isolates at concentrations of A. niger 105 and 10 6 spores per ml. At concentration ofA. niger 10 7 spores per ml per seed, although peanut plant dry weight of carbendazim-treated plants was higher than that of the control, dry weights of plants treated with any of the PGPR isolates were not significantly different from the fungal-only control.