Application of silica solubilizing bacteria to improve the water use efficiency of maize
Global climate change will result in decreased rainfall and increased evaporation. Thus, it is estimated that the frequency and severity of drought stress will get worse. Silica increases plant drought resistance by improving water use efficiency in plants. Despite its abundant availability in soil,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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indonesian research institute for biotechnology and bioindustry
2022-04-01
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| Series: | Menara Perkebunan |
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| Online Access: | http://mp.iribb.org/index.php/mpjurnal/article/view/493 |
| Summary: | Global climate change will result in decreased rainfall and increased evaporation. Thus, it is estimated that the frequency and severity of drought stress will get worse. Silica increases plant drought resistance by improving water use efficiency in plants. Despite its abundant availability in soil, most silica sources are not available to plants due to their low solubility. Silica solubilizing bacteria (SSB) have an important role in increasing the available silica. This study aims to observe the silica solubilizing activity of three SSB isolates collections of PPBBI on insoluble silica sources, including magnesium trisilicate, quartz, and feldspar, and see their effects on increasing water use efficiency in corn plants via drought experiments. SSB activity was measured using the modified standard method of 4500-SiO2 D Heteropoly blue. Drought control in the greenhouse follows the Snow and Tingey system. The experimental design used a completely randomized design factorial with irrigation conditions and SSB species as variables. Water use efficiency is measured in real-time with a sap flow meter. The results showed that SSB Pseudomonas fluorescens-B41 had the highest silica dissolving activity 81.93 ppm on Mg-trisilicate. The application of SSB can reduce maize transpiration rate and increase water use efficiency up to 84% under moderate drought stress and 46% under normal irrigation, but in severe drought stress, where the nutrient solution was maintained at 25 cm from plant root, water use efficiency was not significant. This is suspected due to the extreme drought conditions in the potting soil so that the applied SSB cannot maintain its activities. |
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| ISSN: | 0125-9318 1858-3768 |