Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2019)
Effect of siderophore producing microorganisms on plant growth promotion in green gram
Author(s): Bagmare RR, Syed Ismail, Swami YP and Ghode MK
Abstract: At present fertilizer has become essential to modern agriculture to feed the growing population. Though chemical fertilizers increase crop production; their overuses has hardened the soil, decreased fertility, strengthened pesticide, polluted air, water and release the green house gases, thereby bringing hazards to human health and environment as well. Due to the adverse effect of chemical fertilizers and the presence of plant pathogens, apart from using chemically based methods present study provides a biological platform to increase plant productivity. It has been reported that many siderophore producing bacterial and fungal strains have their potentials in plant growth promotions because although iron is abundant in the soil it is unavailable to plants because of its low solubility. The eight microbial isolates were screened for siderophore production by the universal Chrome Azurol S assay (CAS). Pseudomonas fluorescens produced maximum % siderophore. Pseudomonas fluorescens was further tested as a seed inoculants and found to be very effective in plant growth promotion in green gram.
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Bagmare RR, Syed Ismail, Swami YP, Ghode MK. Effect of siderophore producing microorganisms on plant growth promotion in green gram. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(4):620-624.
