Saprophytic Competence of Inoculated Strain of Groundnut Rhizobium

Abstract

Several workers have stressed the use of efficient strains of rhizobia for fuller exploitation of the legumerhizobia symbiosis (Kandasamy and Prasad, 1971; Gasser et al, 1972) Often the successful establishment uf the inoculant rhizobia in soil is mitigated by the native rhizobia. Patil (1974 a and b) stated that the majority of rhizobial inoculant strains have falled as they did not possess the desired competitive ability to survive and spread in the presence of more aggre-ssive naturally occurring strains of native rhizobia which are already well adapted to the given ecological situation. In the present study a penicilin resistant (1000 ppm) strain (Rh VI-Pr) of an efficient rhizobial isolate (Rh VI) of groundnut was used to study the competitive ability of the inoculated rhizobia for nodulation in the presence of native rhizobia. TMV. 2. groudnut variety was used in this study. Well powdered and sterlized lignite was used as carrier for Rhizobium inoculation (Kandasamy and Prasad, 1971).

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.003242

Pages

403 - 405

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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