2.3 Cropping system
This study was conducted with the use of common variety in local market
chickpea seed P-362. The pot contained 2kg of sterilised soil, and the
field study was conducted on 6ft × 4ft plot in triplicates, the spacing
of plantation was done as recommended in local standard agricultural
practices. The control (T0) plots contained seeds without microbial
inoculant where treatment plot (T1, T2 and T3) contained chickpea seed
endophytic bacteria treated seeds (Enterobacter hormaecheiBHUJPCS-15 (T1), Enterobacter cloacae BHUJPCS-21 (T2), combined
T3 is consortia of T1 and T2 microbes), each plot contained equal number
of germinated chickpea seeds.