EFFECTS OF HERBICIDES ON BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION IN GRAIN AND FORAGE LEGUMES

ABSTRACT

Legumes are an integral part of the farming systems. They are grown sole as well as inter/mixed crops. They not only provide food for human beings and fodder for animals but also fix atmospheric nitrogen in the soil. Nitrogen so fixed by various legwnes in association with diffe~ent species of rhizobia results in increased soil fertility. Everyone is interested in higher amounts of nitrogen fixation by legwnes but some factors limit their efficiency. One of these factors could be the herbicides. Though herbicides are applied for controllng weeds yet indirectly some of them may influence their (legwnes') nitrogen-fixing activity. Herbicidal effect on nitrogen fixation may be either beneficial or deleterious. In this paper an attempt has been made to review the literature on the effects of herbicides on biological nitrogen fixation in some of the commonly grown legwnes, either for food or forage.

KEYWORDS

REFERENCES

A1-Mendoufi and Ashton, EM. (1984). J. Plant Growth Regulation, 3: 121-126.
Ali. M. (1991). Trop. Pest Mgmt., 37: 345-348.
Allen. a.N. and Allen. EK (1981), The Leguminosae. A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation.
Macmillan, London.
Anderson, WP. (1996). Weed Science: Principles and Applications. West Publishing Company, New York.
Angiras, N,N. and Rana. M,C. (1995). Indian J. Agron., 40: 59-63.
Balyan, R.S, etaJ. (1991), Haryana J. Agron., 7:166-168.
Bethlenfalvay, G,J. et al. (1979). PI. Physiol., 63: 213-215.
Bollich, PK et al. (1985), Weed Sci., 33: 427-430.
Bollich, PK etal. (1988), Weed Sci., 36:15-19.
Chin, DV and Pandey, J. (1991). Indian J. Agron., 36(Supplement): 276-277.
Clark, SA and Mahanty, HK (1991), Soil BioI. Biochem" 23: 725-730.
De, G.c. and Modak, R. (1993). In: Proc. Indian Society of Weed Science International Symposium on Integrated
Weed Management for Sustainable Agriculture, Hisar, India, 18-20 November, 1993. Vol. III: 150-151.
Duke, JA (1981). Handbook of Legumes of World Importance. Plenum Press, New York and London.
Durgesha, M. (1994). Ann. App. BioI., 124: 75-82.
Durgesha, M. and Lakshminarasimhan, A.V. (1989). Pesticides, 23: 24-27.
EOOrbach, P. L. and Douglas, A. (1989). PI. Soil, 119: 15-23.
Felipe. M.R. De et al. (1987). PI. Soil, 101: 99-105.
GogoL A.K. et al. (1991). Indian J. Agron., 36(Supplement): 287-288.
Gupta, B.R. and Surat, R. (1987). J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci., 35: 1225-231.
Haider. J. et aJ. (1991). Soil Sci. PI. Nutrition, 37: 601-609.
Jha, V. et al. (1993). In: Proc. Indian Society of Weed Science International Symposium on Integrated Weed
Management for Sustainable Agriculture, Hisar, India. 18-20 November, 1993. Vol.ll: 161-162.
Khokhar, S.N. and Malik, BA (1988). Pak. J. Agric. Res., 9: 493-497.
Kishinevsky, B. et al. (1988). Weed Res., 28: 291-296.
140 AGRICULTURAL REVIEWS
Kucey, R.M.N. et al. (1988). J. General Appl. Microbiol., 34: 243-253.
Kumar, S. et a/. (1981). J. Agric. Sci., (Cambridge) 97: 663-668.
Undstrom, K. et al. (1985). Soil BioI. Biochem., 17: 865-869.
Madhavi, B. et a/. (1993). Biomedical Environ. Sci., 6: 89-94.
Madhavi, B. etal. (1994). Bull. EnViron. Contamin. Toxicol., 52: 87-94.
Malavia, D.O. and Patel, J.C. (1989). Indian J. Agron., 34(2): 205-208.
Martensson, A. (1992a).In: Proc.lnternational SympoSium on Environmental Aspects of Pesticide Microbiology,
(Anderson, J.P.E. eJ al., eds.), Sigtuna, Sweden, 17-21 August. 1992, pp. 121-126.
Martensson, A.M. (1992b). Soil BioI. Biochem., 24: 435-445.
Mishra, O.P. and Singh, G. (1993). In: Proc. Indian Society of Weed Science International Symposium on Integrated
Weed Management for Sustainable Agriculture, Hisar, India, 18-20 November, 1993. Vol. IU.: 154-155.
Nagaraju, A.P. et al. (1995). Crop Res., (Hisan 9: 193-196..
Nkwen-Tamo, E. et al. (1989). Weed Technol., 3: 573-578.
0, Keeffe, M.G. et al. (1978). In: Weed Control Handbook. Volume 11. Recommendations including plant growth
regulators, (Frayer, J.D. and Makepeace, R.J. eds.), Blackwell Scientific Publications. pp. 30-130.
Ozair, C.A. and Moshier, L.J. (1988a). Pak. J. Agric. Res., 9: 316-320.
Ozair, C.A. and Moshier, L.J. (1988b). Appl. Agric. Res., 3: 214-219.
Pahwa, SK and Prakash, J. (1992). Indian J. PI. Physiol., 35: 207-212.
Paromenskaya, L.N. and Lebskii, VK (1985). Microbiology, 54: 655-658.
Patel, Z.G. et al. (1993). In: Proc. Indian Society of Weed Science international symposium on integrated weed
management for sustainable agriculture, Hisar, India 18-20 November,1993. Vol. III. :152-153.
Pomela, E.M. and Callihan, R.H. (1986). In: Proc. Western Society of Weed Science. Vol. 39:177-178.
Pozuelo, J.M. et al. (1989). Weed Research Oxford, 29: 419-425.
Prakash, J. and Pahwa, SK (1982). In: Abstracts of papers, annual conference of the Indian Society of Weed
Science, undated: 42-43.
Prakash, J. and Pahwa, SK (1984). Pesticides, 18: 56-58.
Ramamoorthy, K. eta/. (1995). Indian J. Agron., 40: 127-128.
Sandhu, P.S. et a/. (1991). PI. Soil, 135: 293-296.
Satao, R.N. and Chandurkar, S.T. (1994). indian J. Agron., 39: 676-677.
Schnelle, M.A. and Hensley, D.L. (1989). Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 92:149-154.
Schnelle, M.A. and Hensley, D.L. (1990). Pesticide Sci., 28: 83-88.
Sekhon, H.S. et a/. (1993). In: Proc. Indian Society of Weed Science International Symposium on Integrated Weed
Management for Sustainable Agriculture, Hisar, India, 18-20 November, 1993. Vol.llI: 141-147.
Shelke, OK and Bhosle, R.H. (1989). J. Maharashtra Agric. Univ., 14: 166-168.
Sidhu, P.S. et a/. (1985). PAU J. Res., 22: 33-38.
Singh, VK and Bajpai, R.P. (1992). Indian J. Pulses Res., 5: 86-87.
Sprout, S.L. et a/. (1992). Canadian J. Microbiol., 38: 343-349.
Trlpathi, B. et al. (1993). In: Proc. Indian Society of Weed Science International Symposium on Integrated Weed
Management for Sustainaple Agriculture, Hisar, India, 18-20 November, 1993. Vol. n: 98-100.
Tuteja, S.S. et a/. (1995). Indian J. Agron., 40: 128-129.
Valliers, O.T. de and Koch, H.M. (1982). South African J. Bot., 1: 79-80..
Venkateswarlu, V. et a/. (1988). Indian J. Pulses Res., 1: 70-72.
Vidal, D. et a/. (1992). PI. Soil, 144:235-245.
Yadav, K. et a/. (1990). J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci., 38: 749-752.
Yasin, J.Z. et a/. (1995). Intern. J. Pest Mgmt., 41: 60-65.
Yueh, L.Y. and Hensley, D.L. (1993). J. Am. Soc. Hort. Sci., 118: 73-76.

Disclaimer :

All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Copyright :

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

EFFECTS OF HERBICIDES ON BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION IN GRAIN AND FORAGE LEGUMES - A REVIEW

ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS

REFERENCES

Reviewed By

In this Article

APC

Publish With US

Become a Reviewer/Member

Open Access

Products and Services

Support and Policies

Editorial Board