Effects of mycorrhizal inoculum, organic inputs, and carbofuran on maize growth in Alfisol
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Abstract. Fataya AD, Dewi WS, Hadiwiyono H, Cahyani VR. 2026. Effects of mycorrhizal inoculum, organic inputs, and carbofuran on maize growth in Alfisol. Intl J Trop Drylands 10 (1): t100101. https://doi.org/10.13057/tropdrylands/t100101. Mycorrhiza played a crucial role in enhancing nutrient absorption in plants and increasing their tolerance to pests and diseases. Its existence and diversity were affected by several factors, including planting patterns. This research aimed to assess the effectiveness of mycorrhiza sourced from maize fields under intercropping and monoculture systems and of a mixture of rock phosphate, rice straw compost, and carbofuran on Alfisol soil. The greenhouse experiment used a two-factor Completely Randomized Design (CRD), significance level (p<0.05), and had three replications. The first factor involved the source of mycorrhizal spores (M), categorized into four levels: no spores (M0), monoculture (M1), intercropping (M2), and mixed spores (M3) comprising 50% from each system. The second factor was treatment input, which included four levels: no input (P0), rock phosphate and straw compost (P1), carbofuran (P2), and a combination of compost, carbofuran, and rock phosphate (P3). The finding is the treatment M3P3, which combined Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) spores from the maize rhizosphere with rock phosphate, rice straw compost, and carbofuran, significantly enhanced plant growth. It resulted in increases of 58.7% in fresh weight, 52.8% in dry weight, and 69.9% in phosphorus uptake compared to the control. This improvement was linked to a high percentage of AMF infectivity (68.67%) and spore density (369 spores/100 g soil), along with increased soil fertility. Conversely, treatment M0P2, which lacked AMF spore inoculation and used high doses of carbofuran, led to poor plant growth. The findings demonstrate a significant synergistic effect of the mixed AMF derived from monoculture and intercropping systems (M3), showing significantly higher effectiveness than the separate application of AMF spores from each system, and enhancing the chemical characteristics and productivity of Alfisol soil.
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