Agriculture Reference
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Table 4.3
(continued)
Plant group Host plant
PSF
Effect
References
Tomato
A. awamori
,
Trichoderma
viride
Improved yield
Sibi (
2011
)
Tomato
A. niger
Increased the yield and
dry matter content
Anwer and Khan
(
2013
)
Forest trees
Bamboo
AM
fungi and
A. tubingensis
P increased in shoot
tissues
Giridhar Babu
and Reddy
(
2010
)
Dalbergia
sissoo
P. chrysogenum
and
Aspergillus
sp.
Maximum
biomass
production
Dash et al. (
2013
)
yield and tissue nutrient content (N, P, K, Zn and Fe) at tasseling of leaves and at
harvest. Higher growth and yield of maize were achieved when P-solubilizing fungi
were used with 100 % P
2
O
5
compared to 0 and 50 % P
2
O
5
. It was concluded that
single and dual inoculation of PSF along with P fertilizer gave 20-23 % higher
maize yield over control.
4.6.1.2 Rice
Ferreira et al. (
2008
) performed an experiment in greenhouse conditions with three
P-solubilizing isolates involving two bacteria and one fungi and four increasing
inocula concentrations (106-109 cfu/ml). The height, root dry matter, length and
volume of rice (
Oryza sativa
) increased following PSF inoculation (PSF-8) in the
first experiment. This inoculant (PSF-8) also enhanced the rice growth at the
highest inoculum concentration in the second experiment.
4.6.1.3 Wheat
In a study, Xiaoa et al. (
2008
) isolated 3 PSF from phosphate mines of Hubei,
People's Republic of China, and identified them as
Penicillium expansum
,
Mucor
ramosissimus and Candida krissii
. Subsequently, these PSF were tested under pot
trial to evaluate their growth-promoting abilities using wheat as a test crop.
Generally, all fungi enhanced the growth of wheat plants and increased soil-
available P and P and N uptake of wheat seedling in soil containing RP under pot
conditions. This study thus demonstrated the capability of the fungal isolates to
convert insoluble form of P into plant-available P form from RP, and therefore,
such fungal cultures hold great potential for developing biofertilizers to enhance
soil fertility and promote wheat plant growth. Similarly, P-solubilizing fungus
P. oxalicum
isolated from the rhizosphere soil of rock phosphate mine landfills
