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The success of rhizobial inoculation on plant roots is often limited by several factors, including environmental conditions, the number of infective cells applied, the presence of competing indigenous (native) rhizobia, and the inoculation method. Many approaches have been taken to solve the problem of inoculant competition by naturalized populations of compatible rhizobia present in soil, but so far without a satisfactory solution. We used antibiotic resistance and molecular profiles as tools to find a reliable and accurate method for competitiveness assay between introduced Bradyrhizobium sp. strains and indigenous rhizobia strains that nodulate peanut in Argentina. The positional advantage of rhizobia soil population for nodulation was assessed using a laboratory model in which a rhizobial population is established in sterile vermiculite. We observed an increase in nodule number per plant and nodule occupancy for strains established in vermiculite. In field experiments, only 9% of total nodules were formed by bacteria inoculated by direct coating of seed, whereas 78% of nodules were formed by bacteria inoculated in the furrow at seeding. In each case, the other nodules were formed by indigenous strains or by both strains (inoculated and indigenous). These findings indicate a positional advantage of native rhizobia or in-furrow inoculated rhizobia for nodulation in peanut.
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This work was supported by grants from the Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT), and Síntesis Química SAIC. WG is a Career Member of CONICET. PB has a doctoral fellowship from CONICET. The authors thank Mr. G. Cerioni for providing field facilities in La Aguada, and Dr. S. Anderson for editing the manuscript.
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Bogino, P., Banchio, E., Bonfiglio, C. et al. Competitiveness of a Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain in Soils Containing Indigenous Rhizobia. Curr Microbiol 56, 66–72 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-007-9041-4
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