In order to investigate the influence of bio- and chemical fertilizers on growth parameters and essential oil of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller.), an experiment based on randomized complete blocks design with five treatments and three replications was carried out. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (strain Sebacina vermifera) and phosphate dissolving bacteria (genera Peseudomonas) were applied as ...

Accepted : June, 2009 Mango is one of the most popular fruit crops grown in tropical and subtropical countries. It is considered as ‘National fruit of India’ and is rightly called as ‘king of fruits’ due to unique taste, flavour and is popular within all sections of society. Mango is cultivated vegetatively by adopting several techniques like inarching, budding, stone grafting but veneer grafti...

Field experiments were conducted near Weslaco, Texas (Lat. 26° 8' N) between 1999 and 2001 to evaluate the field performance of preand post-mycorrhizal inoculations of tomato and onion (2001 only) transplants. In 1999 ‘Heatmaster’ tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) transplants were inoculated with Glomes intraradices (Reforestation Technologies, Salinas, CA) at transplanting; in 2000 ‘Heatm...

In a first experiment of soil contaminated with 137Cs, inoculation with a mixture of arbuscular mycorrhizae enhanced the uptake of 137Cs by leek under greenhouse conditions, while no effect on the uptake by ryegrass was observed. The mycorrhizal infection frequency in leek was independent of whether the 137Cs-contaminated soil was inoculated with mycorrhizal spores or not. The lack of mycorrhiz...

Plants can respond with sink stimulation of photosynthesis when colonized with fungal or bacterial root symbionts, compensating costs of carbohydrate allocation to the microbes. However, constraints may arise under light limitation when plants cannot extensively increase photosynthesis. We hypothesize that under such conditions the costs for maintaining the symbiosis outweigh the benefits, ulti...

To evaluate the effect of Azospirillum and mycorrhizal soil fungi on nutrition Jerusalem artichoke crop (Helianthus tuberosus L.), determinations agronomic parameters health status plants were carried out under field conditions. The tests out, at time implantation culture: "seeds" inoculated with A. brasilense native fungi, generating four treatments including control co-inoculation consortium ...