Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
SD Gaikwad, PA Bhosale and Dr. SS Chandanshive

Abstract:
A field experiment was conducted during the winter (Rabi) seasons of 2019 at field of Plant Pathology section, College of Agriculture, Pune to study the “Effect of Phosphate solubilizing bacteria on growth and yield of chickpea in calcareous soil.” (Cicer arietinum). The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with eight treatments and three replications. Results revealed that the treatment T₇ i:e seed treatment with MPKV PSB + MPKV Rhizobium was statistically superior among all other treatments with respect to growth and yield parameters such as germination %, plant height, no. of effective nodules per plant, dry matter weight (g), no. of pods/plant, 1000 seed weight, yield/plot (g) and (qt/ha) of chickpea over control. The uptake of N and P by chickpea improved significantly with seed treatment with MPKV PSB + MPKV Rhizobium. Inoculations with Pseudomonas fluorescence alone also improved the growth and yield of chickpea over control.