Evaluation of diazotrophic plant growth promoting bacteria in tropical grasses

• Grant number: 17/26364-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Pastures and Forage Crops
• Principal Investigator: Cecilio Viega Soares Filho
• Grantee: Geovana Carolina Rodrigues de Sá
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMVA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araçatuba. Araçatuba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

It is estimated that in Brazil there are about 180 million hectares of pastures, with 60% with some degree of degradation. Recovery of degraded areas requires restoration of soil fertility, for plant growth and forage production, and the use of microbial inoculants with plant growth promoting bacteria may help in these processes. Due to the search for more viable and economical forms of nitrogen supply for forage grasses, inoculation with associative endophytic diazotrophic bacteria is a potential alternative because it contributes positively to plant nutrition, reducing the use of nitrogen fertilizers and thus benefiting the adoption of this technology in the agricultural environment. With the objective of evaluating the nutrition, development, bromatological composition and production of Panicum maximum cv. BRS Zuri submitted to inoculation with associative diazotrophic bacteria in Argisol. The experiment will be conducted in a greenhouse, in Araçatuba-SP. The composition of the AB-V5 and AB-V6 strains of Azospirillum brasilense, Pseudomonas fluorescens CNPSo 2719 and the composition of AB-V6 and Rhizobium tropici CIAT 899, control (without nitrogen N) and without inoculation), with complete fertilization (N at a dose of 100 mg dm-3) and without inoculant, combination of N plus inoculation with strains and the combination of N plus inoculation associated with re-inoculation at shoot each cut. Each plot will consist of a pot of 8 dm3, totaling 55 plots. The variables to be analyzed will be plant height, number of leaves and tillers, dry mass of leaves and tillers, chlorophyll content, leaf / stem ratio, shoot/root ratio, dry mass of roots, macro and micronutrient levels, and the levels of PB. The multidisciplinary work should allow to observe that the efficiency of forage production with high nutritional quality and a good pasture management is fundamental to guarantee the animal production, as well as pasture persistence and the mitigation of greenhouse gases.

Scientific publications

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SA, GEOVANA C. R.; HUNGRIA, MARIANGELA; MONTEIRO CARVALHO, CAROLINE LOPES; MOREIRA, ADONIS; NOGUEIRA, ARCO; HEINRICHS, REGES; SOARES FILHO, CECILIO VIEGA. Nutrients Uptake in Shoots and Biomass Yields and Roots and Nutritive Value of Zuri Guinea Grass Inoculated with Plant Growth-promoting Bacteria. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, v. 50, n. 22, p. 2927-2940, DEC 16 2019. (17/17573-4, 17/26364-0)

SA, G. C. R.; CARVALHO, C. L. M.; MOREIRA, A.; HUNGRIA, M.; NOGUEIRA, M. A.; HEINRICHS, R.; SOARES FILHO, V, C.. Biomass Yield, Nitrogen Accumulation and Nutritive Value of Mavuno Grass Inoculated with Plant Growth-promoting Bacteria. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, v. 50, n. 15, AUG 2019. (17/17573-4, 17/26364-0)