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. 2021 May;28(5):2641-2648.
doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.02.070. Epub 2021 Mar 1.

Effect of the diverse combinations of useful microbes and chemical fertilizers on important traits of potato

Ishan Saini  1 , Prashant Kaushik  2 , Asma A Al-Huqail  3 , Faheema Khan  3 , Manzer H Siddiqui  3
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Effect of the diverse combinations of useful microbes and chemical fertilizers on important traits of potato

Ishan Saini et al. Saudi J Biol Sci. 2021 May.

Abstract

The belowground soil environment is an active space for microbes, particularly Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and P hosphate Solubilizing Bacteria (PSB) that can colonize with roots of higher plants. In the present experiment, we evaluated the combination of microbial inoculants with the different doses of urea and superphosphate in a complete randomized block design (CRBD). Three different doses of urea and superphosphate were tested, i.e., recommended dose, 75% of the recommended dose and 125% of the recommended dose, independently and in combination with three microbial groups viz. Glomus mosseae (AMF), Bacillus subtilis (PSB) and Nitrifying microorganisms (Nitrosomonas + Nitrobacter, NN). Overall, there were 16 treatment combinations used, and studied the number of tubers per plant, the weight of tubers, moisture content, and the number of nodes per tubers which were best in treatment comprising of AMF + PSB + NN + 75% of urea + superphosphate. From our results, it is suggested for the growers to use a lesser quantity of fertilizers from the recommended dose along with some bioinoculants to maintain the soil fertility and also to achieve the yield targets by decreasing the cost of chemical fertilizers.

Keywords: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF); Bacillus; Nitrobacter; Nitrosomonas; Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria (PSB); Potato yield.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Variation determined among the 16 treatments with different combination of biological and chemical fertilizers in potato for the plant biomass (g), tuber weight (g), tuber length (cm) and tuber width (cm).
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