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BASIC BIOFERTILIZER TECHNOLOGY (Skill Enhancement Course)
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Upon completion of the course the learner will: CO138 : Acquaint with basic and applied aspects of microbial inoculants production and their impact on crop production. CO139 : Analyse mode of action of various Biofertilizers. CO140: Apply various techniques in production and field application of Phosphate solubilizing microbes. CO141 : Compare and appraise field application of Mycorrhizal Biofertilizers. CO142 : Plan Organic farming and its mechanism of action agriculture system. |
Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Giving tasks |
Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects |
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General account of the microbes used as biofertilizers for various crop plants and their advantages over chemical fertilizers. Symbiotic N2 fixers: Rhizobium - Isolation, characteristics, types, inoculum production and field application, legume/pulses plants Cyanobacteria, Azolla - Isolation, characterization, mass multiplication, Role in rice cultivation.
Free living Azospirillum, Azotobacter - free isolation, characteristics, mass inoculums, production and field application.
Phosphate solubilizing microbes - Isolation, characterization, mass inoculum production, field application
Importance of mycorrhizae, types- Ectomycorrhizae, Endomycorrhizae, Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Mass inoculum production of AMF and field applications.
Green manuring and organic fertilizers, Biocompost and vermicompost- making methods and field applications, Recycling of biodegradable municipal, industrial and agricultural wastes.
· Plant, Gene and crop Biotechnology, M.J. Chrispeel and D.E. Sadava ASPB 2003.
· Albajes, R; Gullino, ML; Van Lanteren, JC and Elad, Y. 2000. Integrated Pest and Disease Management in Greenhouse Crops. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
· Microbial Ecology- Fundamentals and applications. Ronald. M. Atlas, Richard Bartha. Pearson Education. 2005.
· Introduction to soil Microbiology – M Alexander. Published by John Wiley & Sons, 1977.
· Agricultural Microbiology – G. Rangaswami and Bagyaraj Publisher, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 2007.Mehrotra, RS.
· Plant Pathology. Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi. 3. Soil microorganism and plant growth – N.S. Subbarao. Oxford& lBH Publishing Co. New Delhi.
· Biofertilizers in Agriculture – N.S. Subbarao. Oxford & lBH Publishing Co. New Delhi.
· Subba Rao N.S (1995) Soil microorganisms and plant growth Oxford and IBH publishing co. Pvt.Ltd. NewDelhi.
· Saleem F and Shakoori AR (2012) Development of Bioinsecticide, Lap Lambert AcademicPublishing GmbH KG
· Aggarwal SK (2005) Advanced Environmental Biotechnology, APH publication.
REFERENCES:
· Kannaiyan, S. (2003). Bioetchnology of Biofertilizers, CHIPS, Texas.
· Mahendra K. Rai (2005). Hand book of Microbial biofertilizers, The Haworth Press, Inc. NewYork.
· Reddy, S.M. et. al. (2002). Bioinoculants for sustainable agriculture and forestry,
· ScientificPublishers.
· Bilgrami and Verma. Physiology of Fungi..Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
· Environmental Biotechnology – Basic concepts and applications, Indu Shekhar Thakur, I K International publications. 2006
· Chupp., Manual of Vegetable Plant Diseases. Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi.
· Dube, HC. 1990. An Introduction to Fungi. Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., Delhi.
· Horsfall, JC and Diamond, AE. Plant Pathology Vol. 1, 2&3. Academic Press, New York; London.
e RESOURCES:
· https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6241-4_12
· https://nptel.ac.in/courses/103107086
· https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs13205-021-02794-9
JOURNALS:
• Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences
• Indian Journal of Microbiology
• Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Bioresource Technology
