Influence of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi with different fertilizers on <i>Eleucine coracana </i>G. plants

Abstract

<i>Eleucine coracana </i>G. plants were inoculated with one of the four Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) fungi viz. <i>Gigaspora</i>

<i>albida, Glomus albidum, Glomus sinuosum </i>and <i>Scutellospora erythropa </i>in combination with chemical phosphatic

fertilizer (DAP and KH₂PO₄) and / or nitrogen fixing blue-green algae (BGA) biofertilizers. Full and one-half dose

of phosphatic fertilizers were given through potassium phosphate. The root, shoot and leaves of plants were assayed

for amino acids, proteins, neutral lipids and phenol contents after 35 and 65 days of transplanting. Plants inoculated

with different mycorrhizal fungi in combination of different fertilizers had 10 to 15% more biochemical constituents

than the non-mycorrhizal plants. Single inoculation of plants with any one AM fungus had also more contents over

the plants treated with either full dose of phosphorus or DAP full dose or BGA mixture or BGA + 1/2 DAP dose 65

DAT. <i>G. albidum </i>and <i>G. albida </i>induced better enhancements as compared to <i>G. sinuosum </i>and <i>S. erythropa</i>. Among

all the treatments, quantity of these constituents in different plant parts was improved 65 DAT as compared to that of

35 DAT.