Crop improvement and root rot suppression by seed bacterization in chickpea

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-292

  Pathak, Dharam V ^a   Kumar, Manoj ^a   Sharma, Sushil K ^a   Kumar, Naresh ^a   Sharma, Parveen K ^a  

^a CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Mesorhizobium ciceri; PGPR; PSB; Root rot

Indexed keywords

CICER ARIETINUM; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI; RHIZOBIALES;

EID: 34249034978     PISSN: 03650340     EISSN: 14763567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03650340601124909     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Alabouvette C, Olivain C, Cordier C, Lemanceau P, Gianinazzi S. 2001. Enhancing biological control by combining microorganisms. In: Vurro M, Gressel J, Butt T, Harman GE, Pilgeram A, St Leger RJ, Nuss DL, editors. Enhancing biocontrol agents and handling risks. Amsterdam: IOS Press. pp 64-76.
2. Anonymous. 2003. All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Chickpea. Annual report (2002-2003). p 205.
3. Campbell R. 1989. Biological control of microbial plant pathogens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Debette J, Blondeau R. 1980. Presence de Pseudomonas maltophilia dans la rhizosphere de quelques plantes cultivees. Can J Microbial 26:460-463.
5. Dobereiner J, Pedrosa FO. 1987. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in non-leguminous crop plants. New York: Science Tech.
6. Dunne CJJ, Crowly Y, Monne-Loeenz DN, Dowling FJ, de Bruijn, Gara FO. 1997. Biological control of Pythium ultimum by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia W81 is mediated by an extrcellular proteolytic activity. Microbiology 143:3921-3931.
7. Elad Y, Chet I, Baker R. 1987. Increased growth response of plants induced by rhizobacteria antagonistic to soilborne pathogenic fungi. Plant Soil 98:325-330.
8. Elliott Juhnke M, Mathre DE, Sands DE. 1987. Identification and characterization of rhizosphere competent bacteria of wheat. Appl Environ Microbiol 53:2793-2799.
9. Gera R, Anand RC, Pathak DV, Sharma PK. 2005. Formulation of mixed biofertilizer and its effect on pearlmillet and wheat. In: Sharma PK, Dudeja SS, Kundu BS, editors. Management of organic wastes for crop production. Kapoor. Hisar: HAU Press. pp 223-227.
10. Glesler LJ, Yuen GY. 1998. Evaluation of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain C3 for biocontrol of brown patch disease. Crop Protection 17:509-513.
11. Haas D, Keel C, Reimann C. 2002. Signal transduction in plant beneficial rhizobacteria with biocontrol properties. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 81:385-395.
12. Inam-ul-Haq M, Javed N, Ahmad R, Rehman A. 2003. Evaluation of different strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens for the biocontrol of Fusarium wilt of chickpea. Pakistan J Plant Pathol 2:65-74.
13. Jackson ML. 1967. Soil chemical analysis. New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.
14. Jakobi M, Winkelmann G. 1996. Maltophilin: A new antifungal compound produced by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia R3089. J Antibiot 49:1101-1104.
15. Kennedy IR, Choudhury ATMA, Kecskes ML. 2004. Non-symbiotic bacterial diazotrophs in crop-farming systems: Can their potential for plant growth promotion be better exploited. Soil Biol Biochem 36:1229-1244.
16. Kloepper JW, Zablotowicz RM, Tipping EM, Lifshitz R. 1991. Plant growth promotion mediated by bacterial rhizosphere colonizers. In: Keister DL, Cregan PB, editors. The rhizosphere and plant growth. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp 315-326.
17. Kobayashi DY, Guglielmoni M, Clarke BB. 1995. Isolation of the chitinolytic bacteria Xanthomonas maltophilia and Serratia marcescens as biological control agents for summer patch disease to turfgrass. Soil Biol Biochem 27:1479-1487.
18. Kobayashi DY, Reddy RM, Bick JA, Oudemans PV. 2002. Characterization of chitinase gene from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain 34S1 and its involvement in biological control. Appl Environ Microbiol 68:1047-1054.
19. Kohli U, Dogra RC, Kapoor KK, Sharma PK. 2006. Chitinolytic Pseudomonas maltopihila antagonistic to root-rot pathogens of sunflower (Helianthus annus). Indian J Microbiol 46:45-49.
20. Lambert B, Leyns F, Van Rooyne L, Gossete F, Papon Y, Swings J. 1987. Rhizobacteria of maize and their antifungal activites. Appl Environ Microbiol 53:1866-1871.
21. Lambert B, Meire P, Joss H, Lens P, Swings J. 1990. Fast growing, heterotrophic bacteria for the rhizosphere of young sugarbeet plants. Appl Environ Microbiol 56:3375-3381.
22. Lim HS, Kim YS, Kim SD. 1991. Pseudomonas stulzeri YPL-1 genetic transformation and antifungal mechanism against Fusarium solani, an agent of plant root rot. Appl Environ Microbiol 57:510-516.
23. O'Brien M, Davis GHG. 1982. Enzymatic profile of Pseudomonas maltophilia. J Clin Microbiol 16:417-421.
24. Olsen SR, Cole CV, Watanabe FS, Dean LA. 1954. Estimation of available phosphorus in soil by extraction with sodium bicarbonate. USDA Circular. p 939.
25. Panse VG, Sukhatme PV. 1978. Statistical methods for agricultural workers. New Delhi: ICAR Publishing. p 347.
26. Puste AM, Bandyopadhyay S, Das DK. 2001. Economy of fertilizer nitrogen through organic sources in rainfed rice legume cropping systems in West Bengal, India. Scientific World J 12:722-727.
27. Sindhu SS, Dadarwal KR. 2001. Chitinolytic and cellulolytic Pseudomonas sp. antagonistic to fungal pathogens enhance nodulation by Mesorhizobium ciceri in chickpea. Microbial Res 156:397-406.
28. Subbiah BV, Asija GL. 1956. A rapid procedure for the estimation of available nitrogen in soils. Curr Sci 25:258-260.
29. Vessey JK. 2003. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria as biofertilizers. Plant Soil 255:571-586.
30. Weller D. 1988. Biological control of soil borne plant pathogens in the rhizosphere with bacteria. Ann Rev Phytopathol 26:379-407.
31. Yadav E, Pathak DV, Kumar N, Sharma PK. 2005. Evaluation of Tn-5 mutants of Pseudomonas maltophilia for root rot control in clusterbean. Forage Res 31:215-218.
32. Yadav E, Pathak DV, Sharma SK, Sharma PK. 2006. Isolation and characterization of mutant of Pseudomonas maltopihila PM-4 altered in chitinolytic activity and antagonistic activity against root rot pathogens of clusterbean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba). Ind J Microbiol (in press).
33. Zhang Z, Yuen GY. 2000. The role of chitinase production by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain C3 in biological control of Bipolaris sorokiniana. Phytopathology 90:384-389.
34. Zhang Z, Yuen GY, Sarath G, Penheiter AR. 2001. Chitinase from the plant disease biocontrol agent, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia C3. Phytopathology 91:204-211.