Use of aliette,a basipetally translocated antimicrobial compound,to enhance rhizophere colonization and nodulation by root-nodule bacteria |
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| Authors: | M A Siddiqi M Alexander |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, Department of Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, 14853 Ithaca, NY, USA;(2) Present address: Division of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, State University College at Buffalo, 1300 Elmwood Ave., 14222 Buffalo, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | Summary A method was developed to improve the colonizing ability of inoculated strains of root-nodule bacteria using aliette (aluminum tris-O-ethyl phosphonate), a basipetally translocated fungicide. Aliette applied to seeds of alfalfa inoculated with an aliette-resistant strain of Rhizobium meliloti increased the numbers of R. meliloti in the rhizosphere after 3 but not 37 days, increased the number of nodules, and with some seed treatments, increased the growth of alfalfa. The enhanced colonization by R. meliloti as a result of seed treatment with aliette lasted for at least 31 days for alfalfa, although plant weights did not increase, Colonization by R. meliloti was further enhanced if seeds and foliage were treated with the fungicide. Coating seeds or sparaying the foliage with aliette also increased the number and weight of nodules and nitrogenase activity in soybeans inoculated with an aliette-resistant strain of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. The stimulation of B. japonicum in the rhizosphere and of nodulation was evident with successive plantings of soybeans if the seeds for each planting were treated with the chemical, but aliette did not increase the yield of inoculated soybeans in the subsequent plantings. With only the seeds of the first planting of inoculated soybeans treated with aliette, the numbers of B. japonicum in the rhizosphere of subsequent plantings were only occasionally greater and the numbers of nodules on the later plantings were not increased. We suggest that root colonization, nodulation, and N2 fixation by Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium may be enhanced by the use of basipetally translocated antimicrobial compounds together with root-nodule bacteria that are resistant to those compounds. |
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| Keywords: | Aliette Colonization Fungicide Rhizobia Rhizosphere Bradyrhizobium japonicum Alfalfa Medicago sativa |
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