The present investigation was conducted at experimental unit of Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, College of Horticulture, Mudigere, Chikmagalur district, Karnataka during the period from October 2013 to February 2014 to know the symbiotic relationship between marigold and VAM fungi at different phosphorus levels and its effect on dry matter production. | 2017 6 5 2830-2836 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 5 2017 pp. 2830-2836 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Effect of Inoculation with VAM Fungi at Different P Levels on Dry Matter Production g plant -1 of Tagetes erecta L. G. Swathi1 and B. Hemla Naik2 1 Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture College of Horticulture Mudigere Chikmagalur District Karnataka - 577 132 India 2 University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences Shimoga Karnataka - 577 225 India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords A field experiment was conducted to study the response of marigold Tagetes erecta L. to Marigold VAM the inoculation of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal VAM fungi at different P levels. In phosphorus Glomus this experiment the VAM fungi viz. Glomus fasciculatum Thaxter Gerd. and Trappe fasciculatum G. Glomus mossea Nicol. and Gerd. Gerd. and Trappe Glomus intraradices Schenck and mosseae G. Intraradices Smith with an un-inoculated control was maintained and three P levels viz. 60 90 120 kg Dry matter ha-1 were tried. The results brought out that marigold responded well to VAM inoculation Article Info under field conditions. The plants inoculated with G. fasciculatum and given P at 90 kg ha recorded significantly highest total dry matter production in marigold Accepted and g respectively than other species of Glomus fungi and uninoculated xx April 2017 control plants applied with P at 120 kg ha and least was observed in uninoculated control Available Online plants supplied with P at 60kg ha and g respectively at 30 xx May 2017 60 90 and 120 DAT respectively. Introduction Marigold Tagetes erecta L. is one of the species viz. Tagetes tenuifolia L. the striped most commonly grown commercial flower marigold Tagetes lucida L. the sweet crops in .
