Effect of different AM Fungi inoculation on growth, biomass, yield enhancement and nutrient uptake in cultivar Sankeshwar of Capsicum annuum L

Jyoti Puttaradder, H. C. Lakshman

The selection of AM fungi is required to characterize the native AM fungi population from the soil types. The recent studies have clearly reported that these fungi are host preference in enhancing the growth, yield and nutrient. In the present study six indigenous AM fungi were selected from chillies growing fields of Haveri. These six AM fungi were inoculated to cultivar Sankeshwar of Capsicum annuum L. at green house conditions. Plants harvested at 60 and 90 days after inoculation. The results obtained from the experiments were clearly evidence that the positive influence of Glomus macrocarpum Tulasne & Tulasne.  on cultivar Sankeshwar of Capsicum annuum L. plants in increasing plant height, root length, fresh weight of shoot and fresh weight of root, % root colonization, spore number and P uptake in shoot and root. Similarly the improvement of number of fruits was higher. The second AM fungus Rhizophagus fasciculatus (Thaxt.) Walker & Schüßler was influenced in all the different parameters it is followed by Glomus mosseae respectively. And thus an indigenous AM fungi play an important role over the control plants or non inoculated plants. This is mainly due to AM fungal species differ considerably in their efficiency to colonize and influenced plant growth biomass yield and nutrient uptake.