3.2. Experiment II
Plant biomass (shoot and root growth) were not significantly
affected by the treatments applied (data not shown). Nevertheless,
shoot nutrients content in the four shrub species grown with and
without fermented agrowaste were affected, but differently, by the
bacterial inocula. In soil without fermented agrowaste addition
B. thuringiensis increased P content ranging between 11% in
S. chamaecyparissus to 51% inT. vulgaris, and for K content the effect
ranged between 28% in S. chamaecyparissus to 63% in L. dentata.
Nutrient uptake was maximized by B. thuringiensis inoculation inmost of the shrubs grown without fermented agrowaste, with the
exception of S. officinalis (Table 3).