From: Microbial formulation and growth of cereals, pulses, oilseeds and vegetable crops
Crop type | Crop | Microbes in EM formulations | Effect on crops | Ref. |
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Cereal | Rice | Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi, Glomus intraradices | 1. Improved growth of rice crops under drought pressure | [94] |
Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas fluorescens | 1. Biocontrol agents with anatagonistic nature | [41] | ||
Azospirillum brasilense, Phyllobacterium brassicacearum | 1. Growth of plants under drought situation and nutrient limitation | [95] | ||
Pseudomonas putida (or Bacillus megaterium) and AM fungi (Glomus coronatum, Glomus constrictum, Glomus claroideum) | 1. Plant development and drought tolerance | [90] | ||
Pulses | Rajmah | Pseudomonas lurida-NPRp15, P. putida-PGRs4, Rhizobium leguminosarum-FB1 | 1. Effective for plant growth through N2-fixation | [96] |
Bean | Rhizobium sp., Bacillus megaterium (M-3), Bacillus subtilis (OSU-142) | 1. N2-fixation 2. Phosphate solublisation | [97] | |
Soybean | Bradyrhizobium japonium | 1. Symbiotic N2-fixation | [98] | |
Oilseed | Sunflower | Rhizobium sp., Trichoderma hamatum | 1. Increase inchlrophyll, root and shoot length, mineral (N and P), total carbohydrate and protein contents of crop | [98] |
Pseudomonas putida | 1. Drought tolerance | [31] | ||
Trichoderma harzianum | 1. Plasmopora halstedii targeted | |||
Bacillus sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptomyces sp. | 1. Inhibited sunflower necrosis disease | [99] | ||
Grounnut | Azospirillum brasilense | 1. Enhanced tap root growth | [100] | |
Pseudomonas fluorescens | 1. Stimulated lateral root growth | |||
Actinomycetes | 1. Hydrogen cyanide, lipase, siderophores, and indole acitic acid production 2. Inhibited soil born pathogens such as Sclerotium rolfsii | [45] | ||
Vegetables | Okra | Enterobacter sp. UPMR18 | 1. Helped in salt tolerance under salinity stress | [101] |
Trichoderma harzianum | 1. Supressed fungal infections | [102] | ||
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Trichoderma viride | 1. Biocontrol against Fusarium oxysporum, F. solani, Macrophomina phaseolina, Rhizoctonia solani and Meloidogyne javanica | [103] |