Growth and storage root development of sweetpotato inoculated with rhizobacteria under glasshouse conditions

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Farzana Yasmin, and Othman, Radziah and Saad, Mohd Said and Sijam, Kamaruzaman (2009) Growth and storage root development of sweetpotato inoculated with rhizobacteria under glasshouse conditions. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 3 (2). pp. 1461-1466. ISSN 1991-8178

Abstract

A pot experiment was conducted to determine the effects of rhizobacterial inoculation on growth and storage root development of Sepang Oren sweetpotato. Inoculation positively affected plant growth. The highest growth was observed on plants inoculated with Klebsiella sp. which increased shoot dry weight by 23% compared to control. Five of the isolates were able to produce sweetpotato storage roots. Klebsiella sp. and Erwinia sp. produced higher storage root yields of 35.15 and 8.22 g plant-1, respectively, compared to the other treatments. The inoculation significantly increased the uptake of nutrients in plant tissue and the concentrations of nutrients in soil. The results suggest that Klebsiella sp. and Erwinia sp. are potentially effective as bioenhancers and biofertilizers for sweetpotato.

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Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Agriculture
Publisher:	American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information
Keywords:	Sweetpotato; Rhizobacteria; Klebsiella sp.; Erwinia sp.; Biofertilizer
Depositing User:	Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2015 08:24
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2017 09:54
URI:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14928
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