ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Determination of Yield Parameters of Barley
(Hordeum vulgare L.) Inoculated with
Phosphorous-Solubilizing and Nitrogen-Fixing
Bacteria
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Igdir University, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Organic Farming Business Management, Igdir, Turkiye
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Kayseri University, Safiye Cikrikcioglu Vocational School, Department of Plant and Animal Production,
Talas-Kayseri, Turkiye
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Atatürk University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops, Erzurum, 25240, Turkiye
Submission date: 2023-06-20
Final revision date: 2023-08-10
Acceptance date: 2023-09-08
Online publication date: 2023-12-04
Publication date: 2024-01-22
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Özcan Çağlar
Department of Organic Farming Business Management, Igdır University, 76000, Iğdır, Turkey
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2024;33(2):1033-1042
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Chemical fertilizer use efficiencies should be increased to reduce fertilizer quantities and potential
negative impacts of excessive uses on soil and environmental health. Therefore, alternative soil nutrient
sources are searched for and biological alternatives offer promising outcomes in this sense. In this
study, effects of single, dual and triple combinations of phosphorous-solubilizing (Bacillus megatherium
var. phosphaticum [ M-13]) a nd N -fixing b acteria ( Stenotrophomonas maltophilia [82] and Ralstonia
pickettii [73]) treatments on plant growth, yield and yield component of barley were investigated and
potential effects were compared with chemical fertilizers (N (80 kg ha-1 N ), P (50 k g h a-1 P205) and
N+P (80 kg ha-1 + 50 kg ha-1 P205) and Control treatments. The longest grain filling period was obtained
from Ralstonia pickettii, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Bacillus megatherium var. phosphaticum
+ Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteria treatments. The highest number of spikes per m2, 1000-kernel
weight, and test weight values were obtained from sole N treatments, the highest number of kernels per
spike, protein content, grain yield, and biological yield from N+P treatments and the highest harvest
index values from Ralstonia pickettii + Stenotrophomonas maltophilia treatments. In general, bacterial
treatments resulted in significant changes in yield and yield parameters of barley and significant
increases were achieved as compared to the Control.