Bio-organic fertilizer with reduced rates of chemical fertilization improves soil fertility and enhances tomato yield and quality.

ABSTRACT: The extensive use of chemical fertilizers poses serious collateral problems such as environmental pollution, pest resistance development and food safety decline. Researches focused on applying plant-beneficial microorganisms to partially replace chemical fertilizer use is increasing due to the requirement of sustainable agriculture development. Thus to investigate the possibility of a plant-beneficial Trichoderma strain and its bio-organic fertilizer product in saving chemical fertilizer application and in improving crop quality, a field trial and continuous pot experiments were carried out with tomato. Four treatments were set up: a reduced application of chemical fertilizer (75% of the conventional application) plus Trichoderma-enriched bio-organic fertilizer (BF), organic fertilizer (OF

SUBMITTER: Ye L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6957517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature