Abstract
Sunflower is an important oil crop in India. The present study aims to find out the response of biofertilizers and homo-brassinolide on growth, yield and oil content of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). The results showed that inoculation of biofertilizers significantly affected plant height, total chlorophyll content and also significantly increased yield attributes viz., thalamus diameter, weight of thalamus, filled seeds capitulum-1 and 1000 seed weight as well as seed yield, biological yield and oil content. The combined inoculation of Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) + Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) + Azotobacter recorded higher seed yield (3189 and 3263 kg ha-1) over Azotobacter (1866 and 2073 kg ha-1), PSB + Azotobacter (2269 and 2421 kg ha-1) and VAM + Azotobacter inoculation (2545 and 2752 kg ha-1) respectively, during the both years. Twice sprayings of homo-brassinolide at budding + flowering stages significantly recorded higher value of plant height, total chlorophyll content and yield parameters as compared to brassinolide spraying at budding stage alone. The maximum seed yield (2760 and 2917 kg ha-1) was obtained from crop receiving both spraying of homo-brassinolide at budding + flowering stages over only one spraying at budding stage (2171 and 2337 kg ha-1) respectively, during 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. Key words: Azotobacter, brassinolide, phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB), Sunflower, vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM).
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Claim · model-written summary
Biofertilizer inoculation significantly affected sunflower plant height and chlorophyll content.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- inoculation of biofertilizerse0
- Outcome
- plant height, total chlorophyll contente0
- Direction
- affectede0
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e0“inoculation of biofertilizers significantly affected plant height, total chlorophyll content”
t0“sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Biofertilizer inoculation significantly increased sunflower yield attributes.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- inoculation of biofertilizerse0
- Outcome
- thalamus diameter, weight of thalamus, filled seeds capitulum-1 and 1000 seed weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“inoculation of biofertilizers significantly affected plant height, total chlorophyll content and also significantly increased yield attributes viz., thalamus diameter, weight of thalamus, filled seeds capitulum-1 and 1000 seed weight”
t0“sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Biofertilizer inoculation significantly increased sunflower seed and biological yield and oil content.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- inoculation of biofertilizerse0
- Outcome
- seed yield, biological yield and oil contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“inoculation of biofertilizers significantly affected plant height, total chlorophyll content and also significantly increased yield attributes viz., thalamus diameter, weight of thalamus, filled seeds capitulum-1 and 1000 seed weight as well as seed yield, biological yield and oil content”
t0“sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined PSB, VAM and Azotobacter inoculation produced higher sunflower seed yield than the listed alternative inoculations in both years.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- combined inoculation of Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) + Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) + Azotobactere0
- Outcome
- seed yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 3189 and 3263 kg ha-1e0
- Comparator
- Azotobactere0
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Verbatim
e0“The combined inoculation of Phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) + Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) + Azotobacter recorded higher seed yield (3189 and 3263 kg ha-1) over Azotobacter (1866 and 2073 kg ha-1), PSB + Azotobacter (2269 and 2421 kg ha-1) and VAM + Azotobacter inoculation (2545 and 2752 kg ha-1) respectively, during the both years.”
t0“sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Twice spraying homo-brassinolide at budding and flowering significantly increased sunflower height, chlorophyll content and yield parameters against spraying at budding alone.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- Twice sprayings of homo-brassinolide at budding + flowering stagese0
- Outcome
- plant height, total chlorophyll content and yield parameterse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- brassinolide spraying at budding stage alonee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Twice sprayings of homo-brassinolide at budding + flowering stages significantly recorded higher value of plant height, total chlorophyll content and yield parameters as compared to brassinolide spraying at budding stage alone.”
t0“sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Twice spraying homo-brassinolide yielded 2760 and 2917 kg ha-1 of sunflower seed compared with 2171 and 2337 kg ha-1 after one budding-stage spray.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- both spraying of homo-brassinolide at budding + flowering stagese0
- Outcome
- seed yielde0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 2760 and 2917 kg ha-1e0
- Qualifier
- 2171 and 2337 kg ha-1e0
- Comparator
- only one spraying at budding stagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“The maximum seed yield (2760 and 2917 kg ha-1) was obtained from crop receiving both spraying of homo-brassinolide at budding + flowering stages over only one spraying at budding stage (2171 and 2337 kg ha-1) respectively, during 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.”
t0“sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
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