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TABLE 2:
Biodiversity of vermicompost bacteria and their beneficial traits
Vermicompost
earthworm
Names of bacteria
Beneficial traits
References
Pheretima sp.
Pseudomonas
oxalaticus
Oxalate degradation
Khambata and Bhat,
1953
Unspecified
Rhizobium trifolii
Nitrogen fixation and
growth of leguminous
plants
Buckalew et al. 1982
Lumbricus rubellus
R. japonicum, P.
putida
Plant growth promotion
Madsen and Alexan-
der 1982
L. terrestris
Bradyrhizobium
japonicum
Improved distribution of
nodules on soybean roots
Rouelle, 1983
Aporrectodea trap-
ezoids,
P. corrugata 214OR
Suppress
Gaeumannomyces
graminis
var. Tritd in wheat
Doube et al. 1994
A. rosea
A. trapezoids,
R. meliloti L5-30R
Increased root nodulation
and nitrogen fixation in
legumes
Stephens et al. 1994b
Microscolex dubius
Eisenia foetida
Bacillus spp.,
B. megaterium,
Antimicrobial activity
against
Enterococcus faeca-
lisDSM
2570,
Staphylococ-
cus aureus
DSM 1104
Vaz-Moreira et al.
2008
B. pumilus,
B. subtilis
L. terrestris
Fluorescent
pseudomonads,
Suppress
Fusarium oxys-
porum
f. sp. asparagi and
F.
proliferatum i
n asparagus,
Verticillium dahlia
in
eggplant and
F. oxysporum
f. sp.
lycopersici
Race 1 in
tomato
Elmer, 2009
Filamentous
actinomycetes
Eudrilus sp.
Free-living N
2
fixers,
Plant growth promotion
by nitrification, phosphate
solubilisation and plant
disease suppression
Gopal et al. 2009
Azospirillum,
Azotobacter,
Autotrophic
Nitrosomonas,
Nitrobacter,
Ammonifying
