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Azospirillum was associated with nodules of soybean. In general, seed inoculation with a broth culture ofAzospirillum brasilense alone significantly increased nodulation and grain yield of soybean grown in pots in unsterilized soil with different levels of urea ranging from 0 to 80 kg N/ha. This trend was significantly reproducible in a second experiment when a carrier based inoculant of the bacterium was used for seed inoculation.
Inoculation withRhizobium japonicum andA. brasilense in combination generally increased grain yield in both the experiments, although the data were not significant.
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Singh, C.S., Subba Rao, N.S. Associative effect ofAzospirilium brasilense withRhizobium japonicum on nodulation and yield of soybean (Glycine max). Plant Soil 53, 387–392 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02277872
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