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Nursery beds were inoculated with four different VA mycorrhizal fungi,Glomus fasciculatus and three local isolates I4, I6 and I14, and mycorrhizal seedlings were transplanted to field plots with two levels of phosphatic fertilizer. Of the fungi studied, isolate I4 increased significantly growth, P and Zn nutrition, flowering, yield of chilli plants and also the ascorbic acid content of green chillies. Yield of I4 inoculated plants given half the recommended level of P was slightly more than the uninoculated plants given the full level of phosphatic fertilizer. This suggests the possibility of extending the simple technology of inoculating nursery beds with mycorrhiza to farmers in order to improve plant growth and save phosphatic fertilizer.
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Bagyaraj, D.J., Sreeramulu, K.R. Preinoculation with VA mycorrhiza improves growth and yield of chilli transplanted in the field and saves phosphatic fertilizer. Plant Soil 69, 375–381 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02372458
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