Enhanced Growth and Yield of Capsicumannuum L. with Two Endomycorrhizal Fungi and I Other Bioinoculants

A pot experiment with sixteen different combinations of Glomus mosseaeiG), Acaulospora laevis(A), Trichoderma viride(T) and Pseudomonas fluorescens(P) was carried out to assess the interaction between bioinoculats and their consequent effect on the growth, nutrition and yield of Capsicum annuum. Among the single inoculation treatment, only G. mosseae increased maximum growth parameters, over the control. Almost all growth parameters i.e., plant height, root length, fresh and dry shoot weight, chlorophyll content were found maximum in the consortium of all the four bioinoclulants i.e., G. mosseae + A. laevis + T. viride + P. fluorescence but for fresh and dry weight of roots and leaf area which was maximum in triple inoculation series of G. mosseae + T. viride + P. fluorescence. Triple inoculation also caused maximum increase in the mycorrhizal root colonization, spore numbers, plant biomass, N, P uptake and yield. These two treatments proved to be the best for inoculating C. annuum in order to get healthy and vigorously growing plants with better yield.