Govinda Rao, Y.S. and Bagyaraj, D.J. and Rai, P.V. (1983) Selection of an efficient VA mycorrhizal fungus for finger millet: II. Screening under field conditions. Zentralblatt für Mikrobiologie, 138 (6). pp. 415-419.
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Abstract
Response of finger millet cv Indaf-5 to inoculation with two selected local isolates of mycorrhizal fungi, M6 and M14, and Glomus fasciculatum, obtained from USA, at three levels of P, was studied under field conditions. Local isolate M6 improved not only plant growth and P, K, and Zn nutrition, but also grain yield. Yield of M6-inoculated plants, supplied with half the P, was comparable to uninoculated plants, supplied with the full amount of P, indicating that P fertilizer could be reduced by 50 % by inoculation with M6. Thus, the systematic investigation, starting from isolation of mycorrhizal fungi from different soils, followed by pot culture study to screen for symbiotic response and then followed by field trials, reveal the local isolate M6 to be the most efficient mycorrhizal fungus for finger millet
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Department of Agricultural Microbiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India |
| Subjects: | Plant Production Plant Protection |
| Divisions: | Millet |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 29 May 2012 06:11 |
| Last Modified: | 29 May 2012 06:11 |
| Official URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S... |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/5878 |
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