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Mineral oil, peanut oil and soybean oil were compared with water and gum arabic for their suitability as adhesives for seed inoculation with peat inoculants. Inoculated seeds were stored at 4, 28 and 34°C, and sampled after 1, 3 and 9 days to determine the survival of rhizobia. Germination and nodulation tests were performed on the inoculated seeds. Results showed that oils were suitable adhesives for peat inoculants. Although the oils initially bound less inoculant to the seed, the number of surviving rhizobia was similar to that obtained by the gum arabic treatment after storage at 28 and 34°C for 3 and 9 days. An interesting finding of this experiment was that peanut and soybean oils were superior to gum arabic in supporting significantly higher numbers of chickpea rhizobia at 34°C. Inoculated seeds tested for germination and nodulation showed no adverse effects from the oil treatments. Oils hold good potential as adhesives for seed application in inoculation technology.
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H.J. Hoben and P. Somasegaran are with the NIFTAL Project, University of Hawaii, 1000 Holomua Avenue, Paia, HI 96779-9744, USA. Nwe Nwe Aung is with the Institute of Agriculture, Yezin, Pyinmana, Burma. Ui-Gum Kang is with the Yeongnam Crop Experiment Station, Rural Development Administration, P.O. Box 6, Milyang, Korea.
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Hoben, H.J., Aung, N.N., Somasegaran, P. et al. Oils as adhesives for seed inoculation and their influence on the survival of Rhizobium spp. and Bradyrhizobium spp. on inoculated seeds. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 7, 324–330 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329398
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329398