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Phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) exhibited a high efficiency to improve plant growth and nutrition in the presence of Bayovar rock phosphate when sand-vermiculive was used as a culture medium. Treatments with dual inoculum (PSB plus mycorrhiza) significantly (P≤0.05) increased alfalfa growth. Bacteria-microbial fungi interactions resulted in a greater utilization of the rock phosphate added to the rooting medium. Although Bayovar rock phosphateper se can be considered an inert substrate because it did not stimulate plant growth, metabolites released by PSB were able to transform the rock into available forms which could be utilized by alfalfa plants.Glomus fasciculatum was the most efficient mycorrhizal endophyte under the experimental conditions employed.
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Piccini, D., Azcon, R. Effect of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the utilization of Bayovar rock phosphate by alfalfa plants using a sand-vermiculite medium. Plant Soil 101, 45–50 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02371029
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