Microbial diversity of vermicompost bacteria that exhibit useful agricultural traits and waste management potential

Jayakumar Pathma; Natarajan Sakthivel

doi:10.1186/2193-1801-1-26

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Table 2 Biodiversity of vermicompost bacteria and their beneficial traits

From: Microbial diversity of vermicompost bacteria that exhibit useful agricultural traits and waste management potential

Vermicompost earthworm	Names of bacteria	Beneficial traits	References
Pheretima sp.	Pseudomonas oxalaticus	Oxalate degradation	Khambata and Bhat, 1953
Unspecified	Rhizobium trifolii	Nitrogen fixation and growth of leguminous plants	Buckalew et al. 1982
Lumbricus rubellus	R. japonicum, P. putida	Plant growth promotion	Madsen and Alexander 1982
L. terrestris	Bradyrhizobium japonicum	Improved distribution of nodules on soybean roots	Rouelle, 1983
Aporrectodea trapezoids,	P. corrugata 2 14OR	Suppress Gaeumannomyces graminis var. Tritd in wheat	Doube et al. 1994
A. rosea
A. trapezoids,	R. meliloti L5-30R	Increased root nodulation and nitrogen fixation in legumes	Stephens et al. 1994b
Microscolex dubius
Eisenia foetida	Bacillus spp., B. megaterium,	Antimicrobial activity against Enterococcus faecalis DSM 2570, Staphylococcus aureus DSM 1104	Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008
	B. pumilus, B. subtilis
L. terrestris	Fluorescent pseudomonads,	Suppress Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. asparagi and F. proliferatum in asparagus, Verticillium dahlia in eggplant and F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici Race 1 in tomato	Elmer, 2009
	Filamentous actinomycetes
Eudrilus sp.	Free-living N₂ fixers,	Plant growth promotion by nitrification, phosphate solubilisation and plant disease suppression	Gopal et al. 2009
	Azospirillum, Azotobacter,
	Autotrophic Nitrosomonas,
	Nitrobacter, Ammonifying
	bacteria, Phosphate solubilizers,
	Fluorescent pseudomonads
E. foetida	Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes,	Antifungal activity against Colletotrichum coccodes, R. solani, P. ultimum, P. capsici and F. moliniforme	Yasir et al. 2009a
	Verrucomicrobia, Actinobacteria,
	Firmicutes
Unspecified	Eiseniicola composti YC06271^T	Antagonistic activity against F. moniliforme	Yasir et al. 2009b

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