The strain was added to the substrate of acclimated variety SP80-1842 (A) and SP80-3240 (B) sugarcane. The data are the average dried weights at 30 DAI. The bars represent the standard error of each treatment. **, values in the same tissue and varieties are significantly different ( 0.01) from the control according to Student’s t test. (C) Sugarcane variety SP80-1842 without (left) and with (right) 33.1 inoculation. (D) Sugarcane resistance protein production.