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Grain yields of the rice cultivar ‘Prakash’ were improved upon inoculation with Glomus intraradices and G. fasciculatum, by 11% and 8%, respectively, compared with an uninoculated control. The results indicate that the amount of phosphate fertilizer usually applied to rice may be decreased by 50%, without affecting yield, if G. intraradices is inoculated.
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The authors are with the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bangalore 560 065, India. ing author.
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Secilia, J., Bagyaraj, D.J. Evaluation and first-year field testing of efficient vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for inoculation of wetland rice seedlings. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 10, 381–384 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00144455
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