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Hussain, Muhammad Baqir ORCID: 0000-0003-0542-047X, Zahir, Zahir Ahmad, Asghar, Hafiz Naeem, Mubaraka, Rafia and Naveed, Muhammad (2016). Efficacy of Rhizobia for Improving Photosynthesis, Productivity, and Mineral Nutrition of Maize. Clean-Soil Air Water, 44 (11). S. 1564 - 1572. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1863-0669

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Abstract

Rhizobia respond differently for improving physiology, nutrition, and yield of maize under field conditions. Therefore, in the present study, maize seeds (cv. Neelum) were inoculated with Rhizobium phaseoli (strains RS-1 and RS-3) and Mesorhizobium ciceri (strains RS-8 and RS-12) and sown in fields (sites 1 and 2) having sandy clay loam soil. Plants inoculated with RS-3 showed significant increases in plant height, fresh biomass, cob yield, grain yield, grain P, and shoot K contents, as compared to control at both sites. Whereas RS-1 inoculated plants showed increases in the photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, water use efficiency, mesophyll conductance, and intrinsic/photosynthetic water use efficiency compared with control. RS-8 inoculated plants showed highest 1000 grain weight, sub-stomatal conductance and relative water content compared to control. However, the highest amount of crude protein, N in shoot/grain and shoot K contents were recorded due to RS-12 inoculation as compared to un-inoculated control. The findings of the experiments clearly demonstrated higher potential of RS-1 and RS-3 species over RS-8 and RS-12 for improving growth, physiology, and yield of maize plants under field conditions which might be due to a specific compatibility of RS-1 and RS-3 with maize cultivar Neelum, as the strength of association is determined by type and species of plant/bacteria and growth conditions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hussain, Muhammad Baqir UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0542-047X UNSPECIFIED Zahir, Zahir Ahmad UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Asghar, Hafiz Naeem UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mubaraka, Rafia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Naveed, Muhammad UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-256299
DOI:	10.1002/clen.201500912
Journal or Publication Title:	Clean-Soil Air Water
Volume:	44
Number:	11
Page Range:	S. 1564 - 1572
Date:	2016
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1863-0669
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language GROWTH-PROMOTING BACTERIA; ORYZA-SATIVA L.; ZEA-MAYS L.; AZOSPIRILLUM-BRASILENSE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; ENDOPHYTIC RHIZOBIA; YIELD; INOCULATION; LEGUMINOSARUM; COLONIZATION Multiple languages Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Water Resources Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25629