Data/hora: 03/06/2024 10:00:08

Provedor de dados: | 63
País: | Brazil
Título: | Cowpea symbiotic efficiency, pH and aluminum tolerance in nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Autores: | Soares,Bruno Lima; Ferreira,Paulo Avelar Ademar; Oliveira-Longatti,Silvia Maria de; Marra,Leandro Marciano; Rufini,Marcia; Andrade,Messias José Bastos de; Moreira,Fatima Maria de Souza.
Data: | 2014-06-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Vigna unguiculata; Bradyrhizobium; Burkholderia; Native rhizobia.
Resumo: | Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) cultivation in northern and northeastern Brazil provides an excellent source of nutrients and carbohydrates for the poor and underprivileged. Production surplus leads to its consumption in other regions of Brazil and also as an export commodity. Its capacity to establish relationships with atmospheric nitrogen-fixing bacteria is crucial to the reduction of production costs and the environmental impact of nitrogen fertilizers. This study assessed the symbiotic efficiency of new strains of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria with cowpea and their tolerance to pH and aluminum. Twenty-seven strains of bacteria from different soils were evaluated under axenic conditions. These strains were compared to the following inoculant strains: INPA03-11B, UFLA03-84 and BR3267 and two controls that were not inoculated (with and without mineral nitrogen). Six strains and the three strains approved as inoculants were selected to increase the dry weight production of the aerial part (DWAP) and were tested in pots with soil that had a high-density of nitrogen-fixing native rhizobia. In this experiment, three strains (UFLA03-164, UFLA03-153, and UFLA03-154) yielded higher DWAP values. These strains grow at pH levels of 5.0, 6.0, 6.8 and at high aluminum concentration levels, reaching 10(9) CFU mL-1. In particular UFLA03-84, UFLA03-153, and UFLA03-164 tolerate up to 20 mmol c dm-3 of Al+3. Inoculation with rhizobial strains, that had been carefully selected according to their ability to nodulate and fix N2, combined with their ability to compete in soils that are acidic and contain high levels of Al, is a cheaper and more sustainable alternative that can be made available to farmers than mineral fertilizers.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162014000300001
Editor: | São Paulo - Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"
Relação: | 10.1590/S0103-90162014000300001
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Scientia Agricola  v.71 n.3 2014
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess