1 Stress Physiology and Plant Biotechnology Lab., Department of Plant Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappali-620 024, Tamil Nadu.
2 Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research, Anna University, Chennai-600 025, Tamil Nadu.
Field experiment was conducted to study the effect of VAM fungi and its interaction with other microbial inoculants, Azospirillum spp, Azotobacter spp. and phosphate solubilizing bacteria on plant biomass, nutrients and biochemical constituents in Jatropha curcas L. Application of combined microbial inoculants, Azospirillum + Phosphobacteria + Azotobacter + VAM fungi significantly enhanced the fresh biomass, total soluble protein and phenols as well as relative water content over other inoculants and uninoculated control. The study indicated effectiveness of biofertilizers in increasing plant growth, nutrients and biochemical constituents of Jatropha plants.
Biochemical constituents, biofertilizers, biomass, Jatropha
