P.G, Department and Studies in Botany, Microbiology Laboratory, Karnatak University, Dharwad-580 008, India
Online published on 18 March, 2017.
A green house study was conducted under nursery conditions to study the effect of carrier materials and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. The seedlings raised with the inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with leaf compost showed an increased in shoot length, fresh weight of shoot, dry weight of shoot, root length, fresh weight of root, dry weight of root and number of leaves over the uninoculated control (UIC) and which was followed by other carrier materials like charcoal, peat and perlite. In case of Peat with mycorrhiza there is an increase in root colonization, spore number and P uptake. Considering the various parameters of the plants, it was observed that Rhizophagus fasciculatum and carrier materials are the best bio-inoculants for Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.
Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi, Artocarpus heterophyllsu Lam, compost, Peat, Perlite, Charcoal, biomass yield carrier materials
