Indian Journal of Microbiology
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 46
  • Issue: 4

Improved soybean yield, nutrient uptake and P enrichment in soil due to co-inoculation of phosphate solubilizing bacteria and VAM fungi in a clay loam soil

  • Author:
  • S. K. Dadhich, L. L. Somani, A. Verma
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 405 to 407

Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan 313001.

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Abstract

The effect of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (Glomus fasciculatum) and phosphate solubilizing bacteria (Bacillus megaterium var. phosphaticum) on yield of soybean, nutrients uptake by plants and phosphorus balance in soil was studied under field conditions. The co-inoculation of VAM along with PSB significantly improved nodulation, seed yield, mineral uptake and available P in soil.

Keywords

Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM), phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB), co-inoculation, soybean, nutrients uptake