Pichia kudriavzevii-a potential soil yeast candidate for improving soil physical, chemical and biological properties.

Arch Microbiol

Department of Agricultural Microbiology, TNAU, Coimbatore-3, TN, India.

Published: September 2021

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  • Soil yeasts have beneficial effects on plants, such as promoting growth, solubilizing phosphate, and oxidizing nitrogen and sulfur, but are still not well-researched.
  • This study aimed to evaluate the performance of soil yeasts for improving soil quality, identifying sixteen isolates with plant growth-promoting traits.
  • After soil incubation with the selected yeast isolates, significant improvements in soil properties were noted, particularly with the isolate Pichia kudriavzevii showing the best results.

Article Abstract

Soil yeasts exhibit an array of beneficial effects to plants viz., plant growth promotion, phosphate solubilization, nitrogen and sulphur oxidation, etc. Yeasts remain as poorly investigated group of microorganisms that represent an abundant and dependable source of bioactive/chemically novel compounds and potential bioinoculants. Hence this study holds the key concept of assessing the performance of soil yeasts with potential plant growth promoting ability in soil quality improvement. Sixteen soil yeast isolates with plant growth promoting traits were assessed for biofilm forming potential and five potential soil yeast isolates were selected and identified through molecular technique. Soil incubation study was performed with these isolates to assess their impact on soil physical, chemical and biological properties. Due to inoculation of soil yeasts, notable changes were observed in soil physical, chemical and biological properties. Among the soil yeast isolates, Pichia kudriavzevii gave better results in soil incubation study.

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