Agriculture Reference
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Plate 8.1
Scanning
electron microscopy of
bacterial strains: (
a
)
P. putida
strain PSE3, (
b
)
B. pumilus
strain ES3, (
c
)
Azotobacter
strain AZ19
various legumes has been observed following seed or soil inoculation of PS
organisms with other PGPR (Messele and Pant
2012
), fungi (Mittal et al.
2008
;
Jain et al.
2012
), and AM fungus (Zaidi et al.
2003
; Zaidi and Khan
2006
; Khan and
Zaidi
2007
). In a study, Walpola and Yoon (
2013
) observed that the PS bacteria
Pantoea agglomerans
and
Burkholderia anthina
under greenhouse conditions
remarkably enhanced shoot and root length, shoot and root dry matter, and P uptake
of green gram plants. Growth of the inoculated plants improved further by adding
TCP with PSB inoculation. Moreover, the dual inoculation of both
P. agglomerans
and
B. anthina
in the presence of TCP exhibited the highest increase in growth and
P uptake by green gram plants suggesting that these bacterial cultures together
could act as a promising alternative to minimize the P problem in agricultural soils.
Shiri-Janagard et al. (
2012
), in order to investigate the effects of biological and
