Effect of Bacterial Pre-Treatment on Plant Growth and Dry Matter Accumulation in Lentil

Objective: Microbiological fertilizer usage is an expanding phenomenon in agriculture worldwide due to conformity to sustainable agriculture model. Nitrogen fixing and phosphate solubilizing bacteria species that can live symbiotic or free in soils have been used in both legumes and other crops. This experiment was laid out to investigated the effectiveness of rhizobia and plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) inoculation on plant growth and dry matter accumulation in different lentil cultivars. Materials and Methods: The experiment was conducted according to completely randomized factorial design with three replications at growth chamber of Field Crops Department, Siirt University, Siirt. A rhizobia strain, Rhizobium leguminosarum biover. to vicia, and two PGPB strains (TV83D and TV119E) were treated to six lentil cultivars and compared with non-inoculated control plants. Results: Analysis of variance indicated that cultivar, bacterial inoculation and CxB interactions caused statistically significant differences (p