Acetobacter is nitrogen fixing bio inoculants exclusively meant for sugarcane and paddy. Acetobacter is known for producing acid as a result of metabolic processes. It has been called interesting because it carries out nitrogen fixation under aerobic conditions and makes it available to plants in a symbiotic manner. It can colonize within plant parts such as root, stem, and leaves of sugarcane and provide benefits to the plant by producing plant growth promoting substances which persuade better plant growth and vigour. Consequently, the thickness and length of internodes considerably increase with increased sugar content which ultimately resulted in improved yield.

It is a plant endophyte and has been said to be capable of excreting about half of its fixed nitrogen in a form that plants can use. Acetobacter bacteria is found in symbiotic relationships with many different plants, such as sugarcane and coffee plants as endophytes that associate with plants by colonizing their internal tissues.

Benefits:

• Strains isolated & cultured from local environment for best result.

• Induce vigorous root growth in early plant. Create Immunity against soil borne fungal infection.

• It Improves soil properties and sustains soil fertility.

• Special effects on paddy and sugarcane, increases the yield of 15-40%.

• Nitrogen fixation in the rhizosphere through the action of nitrogenous enzyme.

• Fortification of the soils with bacterial metabolites and by secreting growth promoters.

Micronutrients are essential elements that are used for growth and regulation of plant’s vital physiological activities. Though these are required in trace amounts, they are as important as macronutrients. To replenish micronutrients requirement at crop level, crops are applied with micronutrients according to nutrient deficiency and specific requirement.

Plants usually face deficiency of these micronutrients especially during its peak growth rate, at flowering and fruiting. Although they can be supplemented individually, experimentally it has been proved that using balanced “mixture of micronutrients” is more efficient and do not cause toxicity like individual nutrient.

When it comes to plants, Micro minerals or trace elements include at least iron, boron, cobalt, copper, manganese, zinc and molybdenum. Their individual uses are as:

• Boron is involved in carbohydrate transport in plants from the leaf to the root system; it also assists in metabolic regulation. Boron deficiency will often result in bud dieback and many other symptoms making diagnosis difficult without Plant Sap analysis.
• Cobalt is essential to plant health. Cobalt is thought to be an important catalyst in nitrogen fixation.
• Copper is a component of some enzymes and of vitamin A. Symptoms of copper deficiency include browning of leaf tips and chlorosis.
• Iron is essential for chlorophyll synthesis, which is why an iron deficiency results in chlorosis between leaf veins.
• Manganese activates some important enzymes involved in chlorophyll formation. Manganese deficient plants will develop chlorosis between the veins of its leaves. The availability of manganese is partially dependent on soil pH.
• Molybdenum is essential to plant health. Molybdenum is used by plants to reduce nitrates into usable forms. Some plants use it for nitrogen fixation, thus it may need to be added to some soils before seeding legumes.
• Zinc participates in chlorophyll formation, and activates many enzymes. Symptoms of zinc deficiency include chlorosis and stunted growth.

Azospirillum bacteria is an associative type of bacteria, living in close proximity with the root zone. During unfavourable conditions it forms cyst which helps to tide over unfavourable conditions. This Azospirillum biofertilizer is an eco-friendly formulation containing Azospirillum which fixes the atmospheric nitrogen and makes it available to plants. Azospirillum contain large amount of lipid granules, which enters the cortical cells of the root and fix up atmospheric nitrogen and produces biologically active substances like vitamins, nicotinic acid, in dole acetic acid, gibberellins etc and helps in better retention of flowers, enhancement of the number, size, colour, flavour of the produce.

Recommended crops : Banana, watermelon, papaya grapes, pomegranate, all vegetables flowers, rice, v., um, castor, potato groundnut, tobacco, ginger, sugarcane, bajra, mustard, turmeric, cotton, soya bean.

Advantages:

• Help to increase crop yield.

• Enhances seed germination.

• It encourages plumpness of fruits and helps to promote root proliferation.

• It also produces plant growth hormones such as auxin and cytokinin.