Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34251477›Full record

ArticleArchives of microbiology2021

Prospecting catabolic diversity of microbial strains for developing microbial consortia and their synergistic effect on Lentil (Lens esculenta) growth, yield and iron biofortification.

Abhinash Kumar, Manindra Nath Jha, Devendra Singh, Devashish Pathak, Mahendra Vikram Singh Rajawat

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Archives of microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Frontiers in plant science · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Abhinash KumarDepartment of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, 848125, Bihar, India.
Manindra Nath JhaDepartment of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, 848125, Bihar, India.
Devendra SinghDepartment of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, 848125, Bihar, India. devendraiari@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7819-2282
Devashish PathakDepartment of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, 848125, Bihar, India.
Mahendra Vikram Singh RajawatICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Kushmaur, Maunath Bhanjan, 275103, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University · INCentral Arid Zone Research Institute · INNational Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carbon profiling of heterotrophic microbial inoculants is worthwhile strategy for formulating consortium-based biofertilizers. Consortium-based biofertilizers are better than single strain-based biofertilizers for sustaining agricultural productivity and enhancing micronutrient concentration in grains. Currently, we investigated catabolic diversity among microbes using different carbon sources and certain enzyme activities. A field experiment was also carried to evaluate the synergistic effect of selected lentil Rhizobia and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria strains on lentil growth, yield, nitrogen fixation, and Fe-content in seeds. On the basis of carbon profiling Bacillus sp. RB1 and Pseudomonas sp. RP1 were selected for synergistic study with lentil Rhizobium-Rhizobium leguminosarum subsp. viciae RR1. Co-inoculation of Rhizobium with Bacillus sp. RB1 and Pseudomonas sp. RP1 significantly enhanced the plant height, number of pods per plant, seed yield, number of nodules per plant, nitrogenase activity and Fe biofortification in seed over the single Rhizobium inoculation or dual combination of Rhizobium + RB1 or RP1.The response of single Rhizobium inoculation or co-inoculation of Rhizobium with RB1 and/or RP1 at 50% RDF was almost similar or higher than full dose of recommended N:P:K with respect to lentil yield and Fe biofortification in seed. This deciphered grouping of microbial strains for formulation of microbial consortia-based biofertilizers and revealed the promise of consortium of Rhizobium and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in improving the biological yield and enhancing the Fe content of lentil seed.

Indexed as

Lens PlantRhizobiumBiofortificationIronMicrobial ConsortiaIronCarbon profilingConsortiumFe biofortificationNitrogenase activityPlant growth-promoting rhizobacteriaRhizobium

Identifiers

PMID34251477
OpenAlexW3182934467

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.