TY  - JOUR
N2  - The incorporation of undecomposed wheat straw in the soil together with the microorganisms for its decomposition increased the yield of a groundnut crop. An increase of 37% in yield was recorded when wheat straw was inoculated with Penicillium digitatum and C:P ratio was adjusted to 65. Inoculated treatments of a narrower C:P ratio gave a higher yield than wider C:P ratio treatments inoculated with the same cultures. N uptake by groundnut plants increased due to incorporation of straw + the microorganisms. The organic C and N content of the soil increased with all treatments except the control. The highest increase in soil organic C and N was with a treatment of wheat straw of 65 C:P ratio inoculated with Staphylotrichum coccosporum. The yield of wheat after the groundnut was significantly more with several treatments than in the control plots. The highest increase of 79% in grain yield of wheat was in the plots which had previously received wheat straw of 200 C:P ratio.


AV  - restricted
A1  - Wani, S P
A1  - Shinde, P A
TI  - Studies on biological decomposition of wheat straw. 4. Incorporation of wheat straw and its microbial decomposers on yields of groundnut followed by wheat.

UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02181803 
JF  - Plant and Soil
SP  - 235
Y1  - 1980///
ID  - icrisat3875
EP  - 242
SN  - 0032-079X
VL  - 55
PB  - Kluwer
IS  - 2
ER  -