ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF BIOINOCULANTS ON PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES IN CHILLIESS. Jidhu Vaishnavi, P. Jeyakumar and N.O. GopalAbstract Chillies are the important vegetable as well as spice crop in India. Increasing use of chemical inputs reduced the availability of nutrients causing physiological and biochemical changes in plants. This can be reduced by the application of bioinoculants. Bioinoculants are the micro-organisms which can be used as fertilizer improving the plant growth and development. The experiment was carried out with NovoBac,a new bioinoculant applied as seed treatment and/or soil drenching at different concentration in chillies under randomized block design to assess physiological and biochemical changes in chillies. It was observed that seed treatment with NovoBac @ 2g/kg and soil drenching @ 500g/ha improved the chlorophyll content with 40.85 per cent, soluble protein by 41.36 per cent and IAA content by 11.23 per cent compared with control.
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