[{
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "IDENTIFICATION OF AZOSPIRILLUM SPECIES FROM WHEAT RHIZOSPHERE",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Rasool",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "a",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Asghar",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "b",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Jamil",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "c",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Rehman",
      "given": ""
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [[2015]]
  },
  "container-title": "Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences",
  "ISSN": "1018-7081",
  "volume": "25",
  "issue": "4",
  "page": "1081-1086",
  "DOI": "NA",
  "abstract": "<p>Bacteria play an important role in maintaining the health status of soil ecosystem by preforming many biological processes. Among PGPR,&nbsp;<em>Azospirillum</em>&nbsp;is considered as an important genus which is closely-associated with plants and shows potential to degrade organic contaminants, improve the plant health and increase crops yield.&nbsp;The present study was carried out for the isolation of&nbsp;<em>Azospirillum</em>&nbsp;spp, which can be used as crop inoculants. Four bacterial strains were isolated from wheat rhizosphere. The isolates were characterized on the basis of colony, cell morphology, shape, size and motility.&nbsp;<em>Azospirillum</em>&nbsp;strain Azo LR3 has cream/ pink colony color and plump rod, 3&micro;m in size, with typical helical motility. This isolate showed ability to produce indole-3-acetic acid (11.5 &micro;g/ml of culture medium) and gibberellic acid (12.8 &micro;g/ml of culture medium). 16S rRNA genes sequence analysis revealed that isolate belongs to the genus&nbsp;<em>Azospirillum&nbsp;</em>with 96% similarity and phylogenetic tree represent that it was different from the remaining other member of the genus&nbsp;<em>Azospirillum.</em></p>",
  "publisher": "Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum",
  "URL": "https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2015-JAPS-144"
}]