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Original Research Articles                      Volume : 6, Issue:12, December, 2017

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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2017.6(12): 1334-1348
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2017.612.151


Variation of Soil Microbial Growth and Enzyme Activities by Application of Treated Distillery Effluent in Maize Crop Grown Under Sandy Loam Soils
Dhakshanamoorthy Dinesh1*, Lakshmanan Chithra2, Murugaiyan Baskar3,
 Karuppusamy Rajan4, Kandasamy Senthilraja5, Mariappan Sankar6, Raj Kumar1 and Karthikeyan Sivakumar7
1ICAR – Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre,Vasad, District Anand -388306, India
2TRRI, TNAU, Aduthurai, Tamil Nadu, India
3ADAC&RI, TNAU, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
4ICAR – Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre,Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu, India
5Department of Environmental Sciences, TNAU, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
6ICAR – Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
7FC&RI, TNAU, Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu, India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

A field experiment was conducted to investigate the soil microbial growth and enzymatic activity of Treated Distillery Effluent (TDE) and Bio-compost (BC) applied in sandy loam soils grown with Maize crop (Zea mays). Under split plot design with five main plots with addition of organics viz., No organics; application of TDE @ 0.5 lakh litres ha-1; TDE @ 1.0 lakh litres ha-1; Bio compost @ 5 t ha-1 and FYM @ 12.5 t ha-1 + biofertilizers. In addition, five subplot treatments viz., addition of inorganic fertilizers at different levels of recommended dose of NP fertilizers (0 %, 50 %, 75 % and 100 %) compared with 100 per cent recommended dose of NPK @ 150 :75: 75 of kg N, P2O5 and K2O ha-1. Application of TDE 1.0 lakh litres ha-1 resulted higher bacterial, fungal and actinomycetes population over control at all stages of crop growth. Indeed, the soil bacterial population recorded the highest value of 20.1 and 19.3 x106 CFU g-1 of soil with the application of TDE @ 1.0 lakh litres ha-1 compared to control at post-harvest stage. There was an increase in the soil fungal population to the tune of 30.3 per cent over control at post-harvest stage. Furthermore, application of TDE @ 1.0 lakh litres ha-1 recorded the highest soil actinomycetes population at all stages of crop growth. The soil enzyme activities as phosphatase, dehydrogenase and urease recorded the highest values of 12.8 μg p-nitrophenol g-1 soil hr-1; 2.96 μg TPF g-1 soil hr-1 and 5.16 μg NH4-N g-1 soil hr-1 respectively with the application of TDE @ 1.0 lakh litres ha-1. The soil microbial population and enzyme activities increased with the application of distillery effluent over control. Hence, it was observed that, Soil microbial activity had a direct impact on the plant nutrient availability as well as other favorable properties associated with soil productivity.


Keywords: Treated distillery effluent, Bio compost, FYM, Soil microbial population, Maize.

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Dhakshanamoorthy Dinesh, Lakshmanan Chithra, Murugaiyan Baskar, Karuppusamy Rajan, Kandasamy Senthilraja, Mariappan Sankar, Raj Kumar and Karthikeyan Sivakumar. 2017. Variation of Soil Microbial Growth and Enzyme Activities by Application of Treated Distillery Effluent in Maize Crop Grown Under Sandy Loam Soils.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 6(12): 1334-1348. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2017.612.151
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