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Microbial inoculation with 20% less fertilizer did not significantly change yield.
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e0“microbial inoculation accompanied by a 20% decrease in mineral fertilization had no significant effect on crop yield or the nutritional characteristics compared with a non-inoculated crop”
t0“Fava Bean Crop”
Title
Virginia Sánchez-Navarro; Raúl Zornoza; Ángel Faz; et al. Agronomy 2020. doi:10.3390/agronomy10060768
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- Intervention effect Microbial inoculation with 20% less fertilizer did not significantly change nutritional characteristics overall.
- Intervention effect Inoculated plants had increased grain protein content.
- Intervention effect No inoculation treatment increased biological nitrogen fixation over non-inoculation.
- Observation Rhizobium predominated in nodules with and without inoculation.
- Intervention effect Rhizobium leguminosarum inoculation was most effective for raising seed protein.
- Observation Burkholderia sp. failed to colonize nodules.
- Recommendation Authors consider inoculation a way to reduce fertilizer while maintaining yield and quality.