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Impact of Biofertilizers on Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) Growth and Yield under Calcareous Soil Conditions.

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soil fertility and plant nutrition

Abstract

The agricultural expansion in Egypt is of great importance to face the shortage in cereal crop production. Biofertilizers recently are used to overcome the deficiency of some nutrients due to their fixation in the soil and consequently increase its fertility especially in calcareous soil. The current work is aiming to assess the use of phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) and cyanobacteria (Cyan.) for maize production in calcareous soil. A field experiment was conducted to achieve this goal in a split-plot type in three replicates over two years. The obtained results were promising, where all growth parameters; leaf chlorophyll content, plant height, ear length, ear diameter and ear weight, showed a significant increase. Yield parameters; grain weight, weight of 100 grains, grain yield and straw yield were increased by 56, 27, 86 and 26%, respectively compared to control. Effect of the phosphate solubilizing bacteria on yield exceeded that of cyanobacteria but the effect of their combination was the highest. Nutrient uptake by grain and straw was also remarkably increased, where N, P and K uptake by grain showed an increase of about 112, 192 and 198%, respectively of their values of control treatment. Grain components; carbohydrate and protein contents increased by 8.8 and 112%, respectively as compared to control. Carbohydrate content under PSB treatment was higher than its value under Cyan. while protein content showed the opposite. Finally, available N, P and K in soil increased by about 55, 94 and 39%, respectively at the end of the experiment.

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2020.45922.1392

Keywords

Calcareous soil, Maize, biofertilizers, Phosphate solubilizing bacteria, Cyanobacteria, Wadi Al-Arish

Authors

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Ganzour

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Affiliation

Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute (SWERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Egypt

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sh.ganzour82@gmail.com

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First Name

Tharwat

Last Name

Ghabour

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Affiliation

Soils & Water Use Dept., National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Email

thghabour@hotmail.com

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0000-0003-0618-8975

First Name

Nadia

Last Name

Hemeid

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute (SWERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Egypt

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First Name

Khatab

Last Name

Khatab

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute (SWERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Egypt

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Volume

60

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

17196

Issue Date

2020-12-01

Receive Date

2020-10-11

Publish Date

2020-12-01

Page Start

469

Page End

483

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_127083.html

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Review papers

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25

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/

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Impact of Biofertilizers on Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) Growth and Yield under Calcareous Soil Conditions.

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22 Jan 2023