relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/4967/
title: Displacement of native rhizobia nodulating chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) by an inoculant strain through soil solarization
creator: Rupela, O P
creator: Sudharshana, M R
subject: Chickpea
description: Soil solarization greatly reduced the native  chickpea Rhirbbium population. With inoculation, it  was possible to increase the population of the Rhizobium  in solarized plots. In the 1st year, 47% nodulation was  obtained with chickpea inoculant strain 1C 59 when introduced  with a cereal crop 2 weeks after the soil solarization  and having a native Rhizobium count of <log-'  soil, and only 13% when introduced 16 wceks after  solarization at the time the chickpeas were sown, with  2.01~d native rhizobia g-' soil. In the non-solarized  plots inoculated with 5.61~d native rhiiohia g-' soil,  only 6% nodulation was obtained with the inoculant. In  the succeeding ycar, non-inoculated chickpea was grown  on the same plots without any solarization or Rhizobium  inoculation The treatment that showed good establishment  of the inoculant strain in ycar I formed 6840 inoculant  nodules. Other treatments indicated a further reduction  in inoculant success, from 1% - 13% to  1 % - 9%. Soil solarization thus allowed an inoculant  strain to successfully displace the high native population  in the field and can serve as a research tool to compare  strains in the field, irreswive of comwtitive ability.
publisher: Springer Verlag
date: 1990
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/4967/1/BiolFertilSoils_10_3_207-212_%201990.pdf
identifier:   Rupela, O P and Sudharshana, M R  (1990) Displacement of native rhizobia nodulating chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) by an inoculant strain through soil solarization.  Biology and Fertility of Soils, 10 (3).  pp. 207-212.  ISSN 0178-2762     
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00336138