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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.11.2.31</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Studies on the Effect of Microbial Inoculants on
Growth and Yield of Capsicum (Capsicum annuum L.)</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Nalini</surname>
                        <given-names>B.S</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Krishna Naik</surname>
                        <given-names>L</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Saba</surname>
                        <given-names>Nausheen</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Prasad</surname>
                        <given-names>Priyanka</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ashiwini</surname>
                        <given-names>G</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Microbiology, University of Agricultural Sciences,
Bengaluru- 560 065, Karnataka, India.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru- 560 065, Karnataka, India.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2017-06-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2017</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>11</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>913</fpage>
            <lpage>919</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2017 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/studies-on-the-effect-of-microbial-inoculants-on-growth-and-yield-of-capsicumcapsicum-annuum-l/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Capsicum is rich in beta carotene, capsaicin, vitamin A, C and antioxidant properties. Microbial inoculants are used to improve plant nutrition and also promote plant growth by stimulating plant hormone production. In order to increase growth and yield of capsicum, an experiment was conducted under greenhouse by using different combination of microbial inoculants [Azotobacter chroococcum (AC) as nitrogen fixers, Bacillus megaterium (BM) as Phosphate solubilizer, Glomus fasciculatum (GF) as phosphate mobilizer] at different level of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (50%, 75%, 100%) along with recommended dose of farm yard manure and vermicompost. Different growth parameters and yield parameters were significantly superior in the plants treated with combination of AC + BM + 75% nitrogen and phosphorus + 100% potassium + vermicompost. This was followed by treatment combination (AC + BM + GF + 75% nitrogen and phosphorus + 100% potassium + Farm yard manure) and least growth and yield was observed in the plants treated with the combination of 75% nitrogen and phosphorus + 100% potassium. The results indicated that the combined effect of microbial inoculants and inorganic fertilizer have best effect on growth and yield of capsicum.
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		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Microbial inoculants</kwd>
        <kwd>growth and yield</kwd>
			<kwd>capsicum</kwd>
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