Date of Award
2021
Publisher
North Dakota State University
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Awarded
Master of Science (MS)
Program
Entomology
Department
Etomology
College
Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources
Faculty Advisor
Prischmann-Voldseth, Deirdre
Description
Soil microbes that associate with plant roots can benefit plants by increasing the supply or availability of nutrients to increase the plant’s resilience to abiotic and biotic stress, crop germination rates, root and shoot growth, flower production, and yield. We evaluated the impact of five commercially available treatments: 1) B5, Bacillus bacteria, 2) GP, Trichoderma fungi, 3) N2, Paenibacillus nitrogen-fixing bacteria, 4) combination of B5+GP+N2, and 5) water control, and soil-dwelling Collembola on growth and biomass distribution of the specialty crop field pea in a greenhouse setting. We assessed plant growth (e.g., height, biomass of shoots and roots) and results showed that microbial inoculants positively impacted field pea plant growth under specific abiotic environmental stresses.
Recommended Citation
Glogoza, Benjamin Patrick, "Impacts of Microbial Seed Inoculants on Growth of Field Pea (Pisum sativum L.), and Implications for Plant-insect Interactions" (2021). Entomology. 18.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/entomology/18
Rights
NDSU policy 190.6.2
Rights Link
https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf
Handle Identifier
https://hdl.handle.net/10365/32671