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Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties

To meet food security, commercial fertilizers are available to boost wheat yield, but there are serious ill effects associated with these fertilizers. Amongst various organic alternatives, inoculating crop fields with mycorrhizal species is the most promising option. Although, mycorrhizae are known...

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Autores principales: Akbar, Muhammad, Chohan, Safeer A., Yasin, Nasim A., Ahmad, Aqeel, Akram, Waheed, Nazir, Abdul
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Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10504892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719109
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15686
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author Akbar, Muhammad
Chohan, Safeer A.
Yasin, Nasim A.
Ahmad, Aqeel
Akram, Waheed
Nazir, Abdul
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Chohan, Safeer A.
Yasin, Nasim A.
Ahmad, Aqeel
Akram, Waheed
Nazir, Abdul
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description To meet food security, commercial fertilizers are available to boost wheat yield, but there are serious ill effects associated with these fertilizers. Amongst various organic alternatives, inoculating crop fields with mycorrhizal species is the most promising option. Although, mycorrhizae are known to enhance wheat yield, but how the mycorrhizae influence different yield and quality parameters of wheat, is not clear. Therefore, this study was undertaken to investigate the influence of indigenous mycorrhizal species on the growth of wheat, its nutritional status and soil properties, in repeated set of field experiments. In total 11 species of mycorrhizae were isolated from the experimental sites with Claroideoglomus, being the most dominant one. Five different treatments were employed during the present study, keeping plot size for each replicate as 6 × 2 m. Introduction of consortia of mycorrhizae displayed a significant increase in number of tillers/plant (49.5%), dry biomass (17.4%), grain yield (21.2%) and hay weight (16.7%). However, there was non-significant effect of mycorrhizal inoculation on 1,000 grains weight. Moreover, protein contents were increased to 24.2%. Zinc, iron, phosphorus and potassium concentrations were also increased to 24%, 21%, 30.9% and 14.8%, respectively, in wheat grains. Enhancement effects were also noted on soil fertility such as soil organic carbon % age, available phosphorus and potassium were increased up to 64.7%, 35.8% and 23.9%, respectively. Herein, we concluded that mycorrhizal introduction in wheat fields significantly increased tillering in wheat and this increased tillering resulted in overall increase in wheat biomass/yield. Mycorrhizae also enhanced nutritional attributes of wheat grains as well as soil fertility. The use of mycorrhizae will help to reduce our dependance on synthetic fertilizers in sustainable agriculture.
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spelling pubmed-105048922023-09-17 Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties Akbar, Muhammad Chohan, Safeer A. Yasin, Nasim A. Ahmad, Aqeel Akram, Waheed Nazir, Abdul PeerJ Agricultural Science To meet food security, commercial fertilizers are available to boost wheat yield, but there are serious ill effects associated with these fertilizers. Amongst various organic alternatives, inoculating crop fields with mycorrhizal species is the most promising option. Although, mycorrhizae are known to enhance wheat yield, but how the mycorrhizae influence different yield and quality parameters of wheat, is not clear. Therefore, this study was undertaken to investigate the influence of indigenous mycorrhizal species on the growth of wheat, its nutritional status and soil properties, in repeated set of field experiments. In total 11 species of mycorrhizae were isolated from the experimental sites with Claroideoglomus, being the most dominant one. Five different treatments were employed during the present study, keeping plot size for each replicate as 6 × 2 m. Introduction of consortia of mycorrhizae displayed a significant increase in number of tillers/plant (49.5%), dry biomass (17.4%), grain yield (21.2%) and hay weight (16.7%). However, there was non-significant effect of mycorrhizal inoculation on 1,000 grains weight. Moreover, protein contents were increased to 24.2%. Zinc, iron, phosphorus and potassium concentrations were also increased to 24%, 21%, 30.9% and 14.8%, respectively, in wheat grains. Enhancement effects were also noted on soil fertility such as soil organic carbon % age, available phosphorus and potassium were increased up to 64.7%, 35.8% and 23.9%, respectively. Herein, we concluded that mycorrhizal introduction in wheat fields significantly increased tillering in wheat and this increased tillering resulted in overall increase in wheat biomass/yield. Mycorrhizae also enhanced nutritional attributes of wheat grains as well as soil fertility. The use of mycorrhizae will help to reduce our dependance on synthetic fertilizers in sustainable agriculture. PeerJ Inc. 2023-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10504892/ /pubmed/37719109 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15686 Text en ©2023 Akbar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Akbar, Muhammad
Chohan, Safeer A.
Yasin, Nasim A.
Ahmad, Aqeel
Akram, Waheed
Nazir, Abdul
Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties
title Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties
title_full Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties
title_fullStr Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties
title_full_unstemmed Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties
title_short Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties
title_sort mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field grown wheat, nutritional enrichment and soil properties
topic Agricultural Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10504892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719109
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15686
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