Effects of Chemical Fertilization and Microbial Inoculum on Bacillus subtilis Colonization in Soybean and Maize Plants.

ABSTRACT: Plant growth-promoting endophytic microorganisms in agriculture have been expanding in Brazil and are an excellent strategy to face the challenges of current agriculture, such as reducing production costs with fewer environmental impacts, without detriment to productivity. However, little is known about the factors that can affect the colonization of endophytic such as inoculant concentration and mineral fertilization. The present study aimed to evaluate the influence of these factors on soybean and maize crops and found that for soybean crops, the highest Bacillus subtilis concentration of 1 × 10⁴ and 1 × 10¹⁰ CFU ml^-1 promoted the highest number of recovered bacteria, when there was no mineral fertilization. However, mineral fertilization limited t

SUBMITTER: Bueno CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9298503 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature