Nutrient Uptake and Grain Yield of Chickpea inoculated with Mesorhizobium of Saline Soil

Author: Kamble Geetanjali A., P.S. Wakte, S. D. Jadhao and G.K. Giri

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Abstract

Increasing and extending role of different isolate can reduce the chemical fertilizers which is costly one, also imbalanced use of chemical fertilizers resulted in adverse environmental effect and mining of soil nutrients. In view of this constraint the present the research work has been carried out to evaluate the effects of various Mesorhizobium isolates on nodulation and yield of Chickpea, nutrient status and uptake of chickpea (variety JAKI-9218). A field experiment was conducted during Rabi 2017- 18 and 2018-19 at Pulses Research Unit, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.). The experiment comprising of thirty-three treatments including uninoculated control of which thirty-two treatments was of Mesorhizobium isolates which obtained from chickpea root nodules from different villages of saline track of Purna river of Vidarbha (M.S.). The field experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replications. The carrier-based culture of Mesorhizobium isolates were inoculated @ 25 g kg-1 of seed. The results of present experiment results revealed that among all the isolates, seed inoculation of Mesorhizobium isolate (ACR-10) recorded higher grain yield (pooled mean;1641 kg/ha) and higher number of nodules i.e. 28.07 nodules plant-1, nodules dry weight (100.94 mg plant-1 and plant dry weight (4.45g plant-1). Among various seed inoculation treatments, available N (209 kg ha-1) was increased significantly with the Mesorhizobium isolate BCR-46 (209 kg ha-1) and higher N content and uptake was recorded by ACR-10 (20.76 kg ha-1). The uptake of nitrogen was influenced significantly with the seed inoculation of various microbial isolates.

Keywords

Mesorhizobium, Biofertilizers, Chickpea, Nodulation, Yield, N-uptake

Conclusion

From the two years study, it can inferred that, seed inoculation with Mesohizobium ciceri (ACR-10) was found most effective isolate for getting higher yield and yield attributes of Chickpea. The soil nutrient status was slightly changes due to inoculation of various microbial isolates. There is no significant difference in nitrogen concentration of chickpea plants among various microbial inoculants. However, the nitrogen uptake in chickpea was significantly increased with the Mesohizobium ciceri (ACR-10). The significant and positive correlation exists among the yield and nitrogen uptake in chickpea.

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Kamble Geetanjali A., P.S. Wakte, S.D. Jadhao and G.K. Giri (2023). Nutrient Uptake and Grain Yield of Chickpea inoculated with Mesorhizobium of Saline Soil. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(2): 15-19.