Record ID No. |
798 |
Author(s) |
Neeraj., Anju,Chauhan , 2006 |
Affiliation |
Botany Department, Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli - 229 001, India. |
Title |
Effect of VAM fungi and P-fertilizers on growth and yield of Trigonella foenum-graecum (L.) |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Mycorrhiza-News. 18 (1):19-21p. |
Categories |
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Soil plant relations |
Sub-subjects |
Fungal evaluation |
Host |
Trigonella foenum |
Organism |
Acaulospora denticulata, Glomus mosseae and Scutellospora calospora |
Country |
India, South Asia |
Abstracts |
This study investigated the relative abundance of different arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and inorganic phosphorus fertilizer on growth and yield of Trigonella foenum-graecum, which contains diosgenin and alkaloids like trigonelline and trigocoumarin. T. foenum-graecum cultivar PEB was used as the experimental host plant. The AM fungi, namely, Acaulospora denticulata, Glomus mosseae and Scutellospora calospora, maintained on maize roots in pot cultures were used as inoculum. The treatments studied include: (i) Acaulospora denticulata (AM1) 4 AM1 + phosphorus (potassium di-hydrogen phosphate); (ii) Glomus mosseae (AM2) 5 AM2 + phosphorus; and (iii) Scutellospora calospora (AM3) 6 AM3 + phosphorus. Growth of plants was better and significantly mode when an AM fungus + chemical phosphorus were given in combination than any of the AM fungi alone, which were better than the control plots. The application of chemical phosphorus along with the AM fungi was found to be affective in increasing the dry matter of root, shoot and leaves. Among the AM fungi-treated plants, G. mosseae produced the lowest root weight and S. calospora the highest. The same AM fungi recorded the highest root colonization. |