Contribution of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), rhizobia and metarhizium anisopliae to cowpea production in Cameroon
The objective of this study was to investigate on how the interactions between the microbial syrnbionts (AMF+rhizobia) and the rnycopesticide M. anisopliae can affect the cowpea production in varied agro ecological zones of Cameroon. Cowpea of the Bafia local cultivar was grown from 1999 to 2004 in the Sudano-sahelian (zone-I), Guineasavannah (zone-II), monomodal (zone-IV) and bimodal humid-forest rainfall (zone-V) of Cameroon. Two cropping seasons were experimented in each zone, but in different years except in zone-IV. Experiments were conducted in a Randomised Block Design (RED) with two levels of inoculation at sowing (uninoculanted seeds and dually inoculated seeds with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and rhizobia and two levels of spray applications at onset of flowering with the mycopesticide (Metarhizium anisopliae), or the insecticide Deltamethrin ®. Results indicate that inoculation significantly increased cowpea biomass in the first and second cropping years, respectively by 38 and 40% in zone-I, 54 and 43% in zone-II, 55 and 46% in zone-IV, 41 and 51 % in zone-Vat 45 Days After Planting (DAP). Inoculated plants showed a low but significant (p = 0.01) response to AMF colonization in all the trials compared to uninoculated plants. Nodules were formed by native and introduced rhizobia while the number and dry weight of nodules were significantly higher (p<0.0 1) in roots of inoculated than those of uninoculated plants. Inoculated and sprayed treatments significantly produced more pods per plant (p<0.01) and enhanced the dry weight of pods per plant at harvest (p = 0.03) in all trials compared to the control. These results suggest that AMF, rhizobia and M. anisopliae are variously efficient microsyrnbionts and mycopesticides in different Cameroonian soils and may be used as economical and safe bio-inoculants to improve cowpea production in the country.
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dig-cgspace-10568-923472023-06-13T06:39:52Z Contribution of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), rhizobia and metarhizium anisopliae to cowpea production in Cameroon Ngakou, A. Nwaga, D. Ntonifor, N.N. Tamo, Manuele Nebane, C.L.N. Parh, I.A. arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi cowpeas growth inoculation metarhizium anisopliae rhizobia yield cropping The objective of this study was to investigate on how the interactions between the microbial syrnbionts (AMF+rhizobia) and the rnycopesticide M. anisopliae can affect the cowpea production in varied agro ecological zones of Cameroon. Cowpea of the Bafia local cultivar was grown from 1999 to 2004 in the Sudano-sahelian (zone-I), Guineasavannah (zone-II), monomodal (zone-IV) and bimodal humid-forest rainfall (zone-V) of Cameroon. Two cropping seasons were experimented in each zone, but in different years except in zone-IV. Experiments were conducted in a Randomised Block Design (RED) with two levels of inoculation at sowing (uninoculanted seeds and dually inoculated seeds with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and rhizobia and two levels of spray applications at onset of flowering with the mycopesticide (Metarhizium anisopliae), or the insecticide Deltamethrin ®. Results indicate that inoculation significantly increased cowpea biomass in the first and second cropping years, respectively by 38 and 40% in zone-I, 54 and 43% in zone-II, 55 and 46% in zone-IV, 41 and 51 % in zone-Vat 45 Days After Planting (DAP). Inoculated plants showed a low but significant (p = 0.01) response to AMF colonization in all the trials compared to uninoculated plants. Nodules were formed by native and introduced rhizobia while the number and dry weight of nodules were significantly higher (p<0.0 1) in roots of inoculated than those of uninoculated plants. Inoculated and sprayed treatments significantly produced more pods per plant (p<0.01) and enhanced the dry weight of pods per plant at harvest (p = 0.03) in all trials compared to the control. These results suggest that AMF, rhizobia and M. anisopliae are variously efficient microsyrnbionts and mycopesticides in different Cameroonian soils and may be used as economical and safe bio-inoculants to improve cowpea production in the country. 2007 2018-04-24T14:08:14Z 2018-04-24T14:08:14Z Journal Article Ngakou, A., Nwaga, D., Ntonifor, N.N., Tamo, M., Nebane, C.L.N. & Parh, I.A. (2007). Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), rhizobia and Metarhizium anisopliae to cowpea production in Cameroon. International Journal of Agricultural Research, 2(9), 754-764. 1816-4897 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92347 en Limited Access 754-764 International Journal of Agricultural Research |
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The objective of this study was to investigate on how the interactions between the microbial syrnbionts (AMF+rhizobia) and the rnycopesticide M. anisopliae can affect the cowpea production in varied agro ecological zones of Cameroon. Cowpea of the Bafia
local cultivar was grown from 1999 to 2004 in the Sudano-sahelian (zone-I), Guineasavannah (zone-II), monomodal (zone-IV) and bimodal humid-forest rainfall (zone-V) of Cameroon. Two cropping seasons were experimented in each zone, but in different years except in zone-IV. Experiments were conducted in a Randomised Block Design (RED) with two levels of inoculation at sowing (uninoculanted seeds and dually inoculated seeds with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and rhizobia and two levels of spray applications at onset of flowering with the mycopesticide (Metarhizium anisopliae), or the insecticide Deltamethrin ®. Results indicate that inoculation significantly increased cowpea biomass in the first and second cropping years, respectively by 38 and 40% in zone-I, 54 and 43% in zone-II, 55 and 46% in zone-IV, 41 and 51 % in zone-Vat 45 Days After Planting (DAP).
Inoculated plants showed a low but significant (p = 0.01) response to AMF colonization in all the trials compared to uninoculated plants. Nodules were formed by native and introduced rhizobia while the number and dry weight of nodules were significantly higher (p<0.0 1) in roots of inoculated than those of uninoculated plants. Inoculated and sprayed treatments significantly produced more pods per plant (p<0.01) and enhanced the dry weight of pods per plant at harvest (p = 0.03) in all trials compared to the control. These results suggest that AMF, rhizobia and M. anisopliae are variously efficient microsyrnbionts and mycopesticides in different Cameroonian soils and may be used as economical and safe bio-inoculants to improve cowpea production in the country. |
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Contribution of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), rhizobia and metarhizium anisopliae to cowpea production in Cameroon |
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Contribution of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), rhizobia and metarhizium anisopliae to cowpea production in Cameroon |
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Contribution of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), rhizobia and metarhizium anisopliae to cowpea production in Cameroon |
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