Effect of bioagents on seed yield and quality in biofortified rice genotypes

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out during kharif 2019 at Agricultural Research Station, Mugad to knowthe effect of bio-agents on seed yield and quality in biofortified rice genotypes. The experiment was laid out in factorialrandomized complete block design with three replication. T1-AM fungi consortium, T2- Foliar spray with PPFM, T3-AMfungi consortium + Foliar spray with PPFM, T4- Control and as factor II comprised of four genotypes (G1:BA32,G2:BD36, G3:BD13 and G4:BPT5204), three genotypes derived from two crosses viz., BPT5204 x A-67 & BPT5204 x D6-2-2 and BPT 5204 as check. The result indicated that the treatment (T3) soil application of AM fungi consortium (8kg acre-1)+ foliar spray with PPFM at 60 and 90 DAS (1 litre of PPFM in 100 litres of water acre-1) had significantly higher plantheight, dehydrogenase activity of rhizosphere, SPAD value, flag leaf length and breadth, number of panicles, panicle length,thousand seed weight, seed yield and seedling vigour index as compared to control