The relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and their associated bacteriacan be has great importance for sustainable agriculture especially in the case of highlymycorrhizal plants such as linseed. To evaluate the possible effect of AMF in association withphosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) on linseed plants, a 2-yr factorial experiment wasconducted based on a randomized comple...

Microorganisms play a vital role in the biogeochemical cycles of various marine environments, but studies on occurrence and distribution of such bacteria in the marine environment from India are meager. We studied the phosphate solubilizing property of bacteria from the deep sea sediment of Bay of Bengal, India, to understand their role in phosphorous cycle (and thereby the benthic productivity...

Two indigenous rhizospheric phosphate solubilizing isolates PSB 12 identified as Gluconacetobacter sp. (MTCC 8368) and PSB 73 identified as Burkholderia sp. (MTCC 8369) were examined for their growth enhancement potential of rice (Jyothi PTB 39) under pot culture assays. The results showed significant impact on microbial count and PSB population, phosphatase and dehydrogenase activity, availabl...

Wheat is one of the leading staple crops in many countries. Phosphorus (P) plays an important role for wheat growth and yield as it takes part metabolic pathways. Even soluble phosphatic fertilizers, most Pakistani soils, being alkaline calcareous nature, show phosphorus use efficiency (PUE) not more than 10–25%. The major issue unavailability P due to fixation precipitation reactions with soil...

A study was conducted to isolate and characterize phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) from soils of various locations in North Gujarat. total 40 PSB isolates were obtained, exhibiting a index (PSI) ranging 2.11 4.33. Interestingly, among isolates, subset 16 displayed an additional trait potassium solubilization, as evidenced by their (KSI) values falling within the range 2.10 3.10. These scre...