World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

PIRIFORMOSPORA INDICA EFFECT ON LETTUCE (LACTUCA SATIVA): THE MOST NEEDED AGRICULTURE CROP

Sneha Gupta, *Manpreet Kaur Attri and Ajit Varma

ABSTRACT

Piriformospora indica is a miracle endophytic fungus which benefits the number of plants in their growth by establishing a symbiotic relationship between the plants roots usually with the vascular plants which enhance the plant properties. Lactuca sativa (lettuce) is an agriculture crop used in food industry at boom, plants grown with the P.indica shows healthier plant biomass with more leaves surface. The fungus interact with plants roots forms a symbiotic relationship with them and benefit the plant in all ways from increasing the uptake of more nutrition from the roots to the huge leave surface and length. These plants were grown from the seeds and treated with Piriformospora indica under controlled conditions and were compared with the control plants of same species under certain parameters like dry cell weight, protein content, spore count, root and shoot length, interaction with fungus. Excellent results were obtained with significant difference in both plants. This suggest Lactuca sativa (lettuce) grow much faster and healthier with P.indica. Which overcome the concern of efficient and fast growth of Lactuca sativa.

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