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Front. Microbiol.
Sec. Microbe and Virus Interactions with Plants
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1452553
This article is part of the Research Topic Microbial-Mediated Induced Resistance: Interactive Effects for Improving Crop Health View all 9 articles

Relative Multi-beneficial Effect of MOs on Plant Health of Chickpea (Cicer Arietinum L. var. PG-186)

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Supriya Tomer Supriya Tomer 1,2Priyanka Khati Priyanka Khati 2,3*DEEP C. SUYAL DEEP C. SUYAL 2,4Kahkashan Perveen Kahkashan Perveen 5Faheema Khan Faheema Khan 5
  • 1 Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • 2 G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India
  • 3 ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, Uttarakhand, India
  • 4 Vidyadayini Institute of Science, Management and Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • 5 Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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    The phosphate solubilizing properties of Lysinibacillus macroides ST-30, Pseudomonas pelleroniana N-26, Bacillus cereus ST-6 were tested for chickpea crop of Tarai region of Uttarakhand. These microbial inoculants treated plants have shown significant (P> 0.05) improvement in the plant health and crop health parameters viz. root length, shoot length, fresh weight, dry weight, nodule number, nodule fresh weight, nodule dry weight and chlorophyll content, nitrate reductase. Highest shoot length (46.10 cm) and chlorophyll content (.57 mg g-1 fresh weight) was observed in ST-30 at 75 DAS with 20 Kg P2O5/ha. Similarly for plant P content an increase of 90.12 % percentage over control was recorded in same treatment. A significant increase in plant P contents of treatments containing microbial inoculants was observed. Treatments consisting Lysinibacillus macroides ST-30 along with 20 kg/ha P2O5 were found most suitable as phosphatic fertilizer. Conclusively, the sustainable agriculture practice in the Tarai as well as field region may be developed on a strategy of exploring microbial inoculants from the pristine region Western Himalayas. The presence and abundance of bacterial inoculants was confirmed through qRT-PCT. We conclude that the effective plant growth-promoting bacterium Lysinibacillus macroides ST-30 broadens the spectrum of phosphate solubilizers available for field applications and might be used together with 20 Kg/ha P2O5.

    Keywords: chickpea, Filed trail, Phosphate solubilizers, RT-PCR, Principal Component Analysis

    Received: 21 Jun 2024; Accepted: 05 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tomer, Khati, SUYAL, Perveen and Khan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Priyanka Khati, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, 263145, Uttarakhand, India

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