Integrating Mycorrhizal Fungi with Different Doses of Fertilizer in Nutrient Management
0Integrating Mycorrhizal Fungi with Different Doses of Fertilizer in Nutrient Management for Sustainable Rice Ecosystems
Layman Abstract : This study looked at how adding a special type of beneficial fungus, called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), can help rice plants grow better, especially when combined with fertilizers. These fungi are known to help plants deal with stress and even clean up soils contaminated with harmful heavy metals.
The research focused on using a balanced mix of both organic and chemical fertilizers — a practice known as integrated nutrient management — to keep the soil healthy and productive over the long term. Sustainability, which means protecting resources for future generations, is an important goal of this work.
The experiment was carried out during the rainy season of 2015. Seven different treatment combinations were tested, including different amounts of fertilizers with and without the beneficial fungi. Rice plants of variety PB1509 were grown in pots to see how they responded.
The results showed that the treatment where the rice received both fertilizers and the beneficial fungi (specifically treatment T5) produced the best results in terms of plant growth and yield, performing much better than the control (where no fertilizers or fungi were used) and other treatments.
The study concluded that these beneficial fungi help rice plants develop healthier root systems, allowing them to take up more nutrients (like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) and water. This research highlights that using such fungi could be a valuable tool for farmers, helping them grow better crops while keeping soil healthy — an important step toward sustainable farming.
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Original Abstract : Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi play a vital role in a wide range of functions from stress reduction to bioremediation in soils polluted with heavy metals. In this situation, it is important to focus on the combined use of both organic and inorganic fertilizers in judicious combination based on soil nutrient status to improve and sustain the soil fertility and productivity which is called integrated nutrient management. The word “sustainability” has recently come to find itself pushed forward into the limelight and attached as a modifier to nouns with which it formerly had no more than a nodding acquaintance. “Sustainable development,” for example, has been with us for some time, but more recent pairings are now commonplace: sustainable agriculture, sustainable design, sustainable energy, sustainable tourism, and sustainable living, to name a few. Remind of sustainability my research works carried out to solve this problem to save sustainable development. An experiment was conducted during the rainy (Kharif) season in 2015, to find out the effect of fungal isolates with different doses of fertilizer on the growth yield attributes of rice. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) from water samples and cultured from soil samples were examined microscopically for identification on the basis of morphological characters. The experiment comprises three replications and seven treatment combinations. The rice variety–PB1509 was transplanted with a pot experiment. The results showed that application of T1 (N0 P0 K0) (control), T2 (N P K), T3 (N¾ P¾ K), T4 (N½ P½ K), T5 (N½ P½ K + VAMV-SI/4), T6 (N½ P½ K + VAMV-SII/5) and T7 (N½ P½ K+ VAM-SIII/3) gave significantly yield attributes were also higher in this treatment (T5) over control and other treatments. The study concluded that VAM can increase the physiologically activity root system of plants and help in the uptake of N, P, and K nutrients, and water. These findings suggested that the use of VAM may be a boon for the farmers who are destined to grow cereal.
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rpmab/v9/1792
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