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Response of green gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) to bacterial seed inoculation and application of phosphorus fertilizer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

S. K. Kothari
Affiliation:
Division of Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India
C. S. Saraf
Affiliation:
Division of Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India

Extract

Nitrogen fixing, free-living, organisms like Azotobacter and Azospirillum are known to increase the nodulation and efficiency oiRhizobium (Krasilinikov & Korenyakov, 1944). The beneficial effect of incorporation of Azotobacter with Rhizobium may be due to the production of auxins (Vancura & Macura, 1960) and prolonged survival of Rhizobium in the presence of a large amount of polysaccharide gums (Krasilinikov & Korenyakov, 1944). In green gram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek), because of high temperature and unavoidable soil moisture stress during hot and dry summer months (April-June), survival of the seed-inoculated Rhizobium is very poor (Lai, Dubey & Chandra, 1983). In the present study attempts were made to improve the efficiency cf Rhizobium as an inoculant by the use of Azotobacter chroococcum and Azospirillum brasilense.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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