International Journal of Biology Research

Authors
Avinash Kale, Niranjan Patil, Abhay Solunke

Abstract
Municipal and industrial effluents contain the large share of fresh water which is discharged into the rivers and other water bodies. It is common practice of using such water for irrigation of agricultural lands near the urban area. For bioremediation of soil quality, soil-dwelling microbes play the key role without any side effects. Soybean is cultivated widely for the rich source of seed oil and proteins. Ten Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) were isolated from such soils of soybean rhizosphere. The four isolates have shown good percentage of tolerance to heavy metals and salt. These isolates have also shown plant growth promoting traits like phosphate solubilisation, nitrogen fixation, IAA, siderophore, HCN, and ammonia production. These isolates can be used in the form of consortium for a bioinoculant formulation to augment yield of soybean and to mitigate the adverse impact caused by pollutants.