Ekinci et al. (2014) stated that B. subtilis TV-17C application increased plant growth parameters such as fresh shoot weight, dry shoot weight, root diameter, root length, fresh root weight, dry root weight, plant height, stem diameter, leaf area, and chlorophyll contents of cauliflower transplant.
In addition, with B. subtilis TV-17C PGPR applications, the amount of organic acids increased from 9.63% to 186.02%.
In addition, the highest values for tartaric, butyric, and citric acids were obtained in B. subtilis TV-17C bacterial application.
Similar results were also reported in previous studies.