UNSOED Conferences, The 3rd International Conference On Sustainable Agriculture For Rural Development (3rd ICSARD)

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Consortium application of endophytic bacteria improves grain yield of rice
Nur - Prihatiningsih

Last modified: 2023-02-16

Abstract


The use of beneficial endophytic bacteria is an attractive strategy to control the pathogens and improve plant growth and yield. The objectives this research were to investigate the effect of consortium application of endophytic bacteria on plant growth and grain yield, and to increase plant resistant to pathogens. The research was carried out in paddy fields located in Kembaran Banyumas with three treatments and nine replications.  The treatments consisted of application of the endophytic bacteria consortium, synthetic bactericide and control. The treatments were applied  five times with an interval of seven days starting at the age of 30 days after planting.  The variables observed included growth components such as the number of rice tillers per clump, productive tiller, and the yield components such as weight of grain yield per clump and 1000 grain weight. The result showed that the effect of the consortium endophytic bacteria application can increase the rice yield attributes such as number of tillers, productive tiller, and weight of grain yield per clump by 37.85%, 52.76%, 39.50%  respectively. The consortium of endophytic bacteria can promote the progress of plant resistance to pathogens by increase of phenol 105 mg GAE/100g.