Studies on association of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus and its effect on improvement of sorghum bicolor (L.)

Treatments

P(mg g dry wt-¹)

Soluble sugars (mg g dry wt-¹)

Chl (mg g fr leaf-¹)

Control

6.01^a ± 0.817

12.40^a ±0.058

1.220^a ± 0.147

Entrophospora infrequens

10.00^c ± 0.236

17.50^e ±0.250

1.937b^cde ± 0.105

Gigaspora albida

13.50^g ± 0.331

19.90^hi ±0.156

3.555^g ± 0.409

Glomus albida

12.40^ef ±0.285

19.20^ef ±0.213

2.446^ef ± 0.267

Glomus dimorphicum

14.50^h ±0.389

20.50^ij ±0.064

4.159^hi ± 0.355

Glomus tubaeformis

16.00ⁱ ± 0.264

21.10^jk ±0.185

4.283^ij ± 0.518

Glomusfasciculatum

21.00ⁿ ± 0.476

22.30^m ±0.171

4.518^ij ± 0.290

Glomus mosseae

18.10^jk ±0.498

21.60^klm±0.16

4.353^ij ± 0.508

Glomus macrocarpum

11.00^d ± 0.314

018.60^fg ± 0.287

2.161^ab^cd ± 0.138

Scutellospora heterogamma

7.30b ± 0.235

15.20c ± 0.288

1.480^ab ± 0.085

Sclerocystis pachycaulis

9.00^c ± 0.264

16.20^d ± 0.275

1.617^ab^c ± 0.103

Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus

8.10b ± 0.246

13.80b ±0.212

1.745^ab^cd ± 0.409

+ Entrophospora infrequens

16.30ⁱ ± 0.071

18.70^fg±0.043

2.432^ef ± 0.146

+ Gigaspora albida

19.20^kl ±0.052

20.60^ijk±0.065

4.431^ij ± 0.531

+ Glomus albida

18.70^kl ±0.043

19.90^hi ±0.047

3.657^gh ± 0.407

+ Glomus dimorphicum

19.90L^m±0.04

21.30^jkl±0.045

4.707^ij± 0.355

+ Glomus tubaeformis

720.60^mn±0.065

22.20Lm±0.050

4.680^ij ± 0.407

+ Glomusfasciculatum

25.40^o ± 0.692

25.10^o ± 0.165

5.727^k ± 0.407

+ Glomus mosseae

21.30ⁿ ± 0.045

23.40ⁿ ± 0.156

4.955^j ±  0.576

+ Glomus macrocarpum

17.80^j ± 0.065

19.20^gh ±0.052

2.858^f ± 0.354

+ Scutellospora heterogamma

12.06^de ±0.226

16.30^d ± 0.071

2.146^cde ± 0.172

+ Sclerocystis pachycaulis

13.30^fg ±0.481

17.80^fg ±0.065

2.247^de ± 0.309

LSD( P< 0.05)

247.40

102.32

51.15**