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. 2015 Jul 1;46(3):735-42.
doi: 10.1590/S1517-838246320140541. eCollection 2015 Jul-Sep.

Symbiotic potential and survival of native rhizobia kept on different carriers

Víctor Manuel Ruíz-Valdiviezo  1 , Lucía María Cristina Ventura Canseco  1 , Luis Antonio Castillo Suárez  1 , Federico Antonio Gutiérrez-Miceli  1 , Luc Dendooven  2 , Reiner Rincón-Rosales  1
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Symbiotic potential and survival of native rhizobia kept on different carriers

Víctor Manuel Ruíz-Valdiviezo et al. Braz J Microbiol. .

Abstract

Native rhizobia are ideal for use as commercial legume inoculants. The characteristics of the carrier used to store the inoculants are important for the survival and symbiotic potential of the rhizobia. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of peat (PEAT), perlite sugarcane bagasse (PSB), carboxymethyl cellulose plus starch (CMCS), and yeast extract mannitol supplemented with mannitol (YEMM) on the survival, nodulation potential and N2 fixation capacity of the native strains Sinorhizobium mexicanum ITTG R7(T) and Rhizobium calliandrae LBP2-1(T) and of the reference strain Rhizobium etli CFN42(T). A factorial design (4 × 3) with four repetitions was used to determine the symbiotic potential of the rhizobial strains. The survival of the strains was higher for PEAT (46% for strain LBP2-1(T), 167% for strain CFN42(T) and 219% for strain ITTG R7(T)) than for the other carriers after 240 days, except for CFN42(T) kept on CMCS (225%). All the strains kept on the different carriers effectively nodulated common bean, with the lowest number of nodules found (5 nodules) when CFN42(T) was kept on CMCS and with the highest number of nodules found (28 nodules) when ITTG R7(T) was kept on PSB. The nitrogenase activity was the highest for ITTG R7(T) kept on PEAT (4911 μmol C2H4 per fresh weight nodule h(-1)); however, no activity was found when the strains were kept on YEMM. Thus, the survival and symbiotic potential of the rhizobia depended on the carrier used to store them.

Keywords: carrier; inoculants; nitrogen fixation; nodulation; rhizobia.

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Figure 1. Survival of the ITTG R7T and LBP2-1T strains and of the reference strain CFN42T in the carriers a) PEAT, b) PSB, c) YEMM and d) CMCS stored at 25 °C for 240 days
Figure 2
Figure 2. Plant growth, nodulation and nitrogen fixation of Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Jamapa inoculated with different rhizobial strains
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