Abstract
Many farmers’ incomes in developing countries depend on the cultivation of major crops grown in arid and semi-arid regions. The agricultural productivity of arid and semi-arid areas primarily relies on chemical fertilizers. The effectiveness of chemical fertilizers needs to improve by integration with other sources of nutrients. Plant growth-promoting bacteria can solubilize nutrients, increase plant nutrient uptake, and supplement chemical fertilizers. A pot experiment evaluated the promising plant growth-promoting bacterial strain’s effectiveness in promoting cotton growth, antioxidant enzymes, yield, and nutrient uptake. Two phosphate solubilizing bacterial strains (Bacillus subtilis IA6 and Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7) and two zinc solubilizing bacterial strains (Bacillus sp. IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20) were coated on cotton seeds in a single as well as co-inoculation treatments. These treatments were compared with uninoculated controls in the presence and absence of recommended chemical fertilizer doses. The results showed the co-inoculation combination of Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20 significantly increased the number of bolls, seed cotton yield, lint yield, and antioxidants activities, including superoxide dismutase, guaiacol peroxidase, catalase, and peroxidase. Co-inoculation combination of Bacillus subtilis IA6 and Bacillus sp. IA16 promoted growth attributes, including shoot length, root length, shoot fresh weight, and root fresh weight. This co-inoculation combination also increased soil nutrient content. At the same time, Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 + Bacillus aryabhattai IA20 increased nutrient uptake by plant shoots and roots compared.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20 co-inoculation increased boll number, seed cotton yield and lint yield.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- co-inoculation combination of Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20e0
- Interactor
- Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7
Paenibacillus polymyxae0symbiont - Second interactor
- Bacillus aryabhattai IA20Priestia aryabhattaie0symbiont
- Outcome
- number of bolls, seed cotton yield, lint yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results showed the co-inoculation combination of Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20 significantly increased the number of bolls, seed cotton yield, lint yield, and antioxidants activities”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
The same co-inoculation increased four antioxidant enzyme activities.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- co-inoculation combination of Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20e0
- Gene
- superoxide dismutase, guaiacol peroxidase, catalase, and peroxidasee0
- Outcome
- antioxidants activitiese0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“co-inoculation combination of Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20 significantly increased the number of bolls, seed cotton yield, lint yield, and antioxidants activities, including superoxide dismutase, guaiacol peroxidase, catalase, and peroxidase”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Bacillus subtilis IA6 and Bacillus sp. IA16 co-inoculation promoted shoot and root length and fresh weight.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Co-inoculation combination of Bacillus subtilis IA6 and Bacillus sp. IA16e0
- Interactor
- Bacillus subtilis IA6
Bacillus subtilise0symbiont - Second interactor
- Bacillus sp. IA16e0symbiont
- Outcome
- growth attributese0
- Direction
- promotede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Co-inoculation combination of Bacillus subtilis IA6 and Bacillus sp. IA16 promoted growth attributes, including shoot length, root length, shoot fresh weight, and root fresh weight”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Bacillus subtilis IA6 and Bacillus sp. IA16 co-inoculation increased soil nutrient content.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- co-inoculation combinatione0
- Outcome
- soil nutrient contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This co-inoculation combination also increased soil nutrient content”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 and Bacillus aryabhattai IA20 increased nutrient uptake in cotton shoots and roots.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 + Bacillus aryabhattai IA20e0
- Interactor
- Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7Paenibacillus polymyxae0symbiont
- Second interactor
- Bacillus aryabhattai IA20Priestia aryabhattaie0symbiont
- Outcome
- nutrient uptake by plant shoots and rootse0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Paenibacillus polymyxa IA7 + Bacillus aryabhattai IA20 increased nutrient uptake by plant shoots and roots compared”
t0“Cotton”
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