| Title | Plant Growth Promotion in Soil by Some Inoculated Microorganisms |
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| Author | Jong-Soo Jeon1, Sang-Soo Lee1, Hyoun-Young Kim1, Tae-Seok Ahn2 and Hong-Gyu Song1, * |
| Address | 1 Division of Biological Sciences; 2 Department of Environmental Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 41(4),271-276, 2003, |
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| Key Words | plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, phytohormones, phosphate solubilization, revegetation |
| Abstract | The inoculation of some microorganisms into a microcosm containing soil from a barren lakeside area at Lake Paro in Kangwon-do enhanced plant growth significantly. The direct and viable counts of soil bacteria and soil microbial activities measured by electron transport system assay and fluorescein diacetate hydrolysis assay were higher in inoculated soil. The plant growth promoting effect of this inoculation may be caused by phytohormone production and the solubilization of insoluble phosphates by the inoculated bacteria. Three inoculated strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens produced several plant growth promoting phytohormones, including indole-3-acetic acid (auxin), which was confirmed by thin layer chromatography and GC/MS. P. fluorescens strain B16 and M45 produced 502.4 and 206.1 mg/l of soluble phosphate from Ca3(PO4)2 and hydroxyapatite, respectively. Bacillus megaterium showed similar solubilization rates of insoluble phosphates to those of Pseudomonas spp. We believe that this plant growth promoting capability may be used for the rapid revegetation of barren or disturbed land. |
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