Navsari Agricultural University

Rhizobium


Rhizobium


Rhizobium


Rhizobium

Rhizobium:
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• Colonize the legume roots and fixes the atmospheric nitrogen symbiotically

• Most efficient biofertilizer as per the quantity of nitrogen fixed concerned.

• Recommended for Pulse crops like Chickpea, pea, Groundnut, soybean, beans, Lentil, lucern, Berseem, Green gram, Black gram, Cowpea and pigeon pea.

• Host specific.

• Ideally grown on Yeast Extract Mannitol (YEM) medium

• Apply as seed treatment

• Can fix 40-250 kg N / ha / year in different legume crops.

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