Unlocking Soil Potential: Isolation and Optimization of Mineral Solubilizing Bacteria from the Cultivated Lands of Sindh, Pakistan
摘要
The phenomenon of mineral solubilization by bacteria represents an important ecological and physiological interaction between microorganisms and plants. Primarily mineral solubilizing microbes are used to enhance availability of nutrients in the soil. By converting insoluble minerals into soluble forms, these microbes helpful in releasing insoluble nutrients such as phosphorus, potassium, and iron, making them soluble and easily accessible to plants, thus improves nutrient uptake and overall plant growth and yield. Forty soil samples were collected from three different cultivated lands. Only twenty-one bacterial isolates from these forty samples have shown capability of mineral solubilization. Among twenty-one bacterial isolates twelve isolates designated as CMG2302, CMG2303, CMG2308, CMG2310, CMG2313–CMG2315, CMG2317–CMG2321; have exhibited promising mineral solubilizing activity were selected for future studies. Furthermore, five isolates viz., CMG2308, CMG2313, CMG2314, CMG2317 and CMG2321 have revealed superior solubilization activity at alkaline pH while four isolates CMG2308, CMG2310, CMG2313 and CMG2314 have shown high solubilization of phosphate under elevated salt concentrations.