Management of Agro forestry nurseries by polybioinoculant for Sustainable tree plantations

Abstract

Agroforestry nursery has considerable potential in afforestation. Management of healthy saplings in nurseries and a high survival rate after plantations is a challenging task. AM fungi and PGPR is highly host specific, adoption centric in nature and forest geography plays a major role in acclimatization. Bacillus sp.(PSB), Rhizobium sp.LT669953 and Gigaspora roses(PUAM-9) were formulated as a polybioinoculant from Kottagudem forest soil for Sesbania grandiflora, Pongamia pinnata and Albizzia lebbeck. A tremendous enhancement in plant growth inferred this novel approach can be employed for reclamation of barren lands, polluted soils and coal mines for sustainable tree plantations across the country.