Single and multistrain rhizobial inocula for pinto and black bean cultivars
Single and multistrain rhizobial inocula for pinto and black bean cultivars
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DOI:
10.1080/01904160500250664
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发表时间:
2005-01-01
影响因子:
2.1
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Walley, FL
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Kyei-Boahen, S;Nleya, T;Walley, FL
Common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is relatively poor in dinitrogen (N-2) fixation, so selecting compatible host cultivar and Rhizobium strain combinations may offer an improvement. The effectiveness of six rhizobial strains was evaluated using five bean cultivars of bean (three pinto and two black bean) in a growth-room experiment. We subsequently selected the three best strains to assess whether multi-strain inoculation had advantages over single-strain inoculation in growth-room and field experiments. In the first-growth-room experiment, Rhizobium strains UMR 1899, RCR 3618, and USDA 2676 were selected for high nodulation, plant dry weight, shoot nitrogen (N), and N-2 fixation. In a second growth-room experiment, the individual strains and a mixture of the three strains generally did not differ in the parameters evaluated. Total shoot N accumulated ranged from 172.9 to 162.8 mg plant(-1) , of which 32.1% to 33.6% (equivalent to 54.0 to 59.2 mg plant(-1)) was fixed. In field experiments, plant biomass and seed N-2 fixed did not differ among the inoculants at any site. These results suggest that the three strains were equally effective and that the multi-strain inoculant offered no consistent advantage over the single-strain inoculants.