Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellayani, Kerala 695 572, India
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Crops for transplantion can be pre-inoculated with AMF in the nursery itself so that the inoculum quantity can be reduced. Of the different methods tested, application of AMF in nursery furrows recorded maximum colonization and the economical dose for satisfactory colonization was found to be 850 g m–2.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), chilli, dose, colonization
