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    This document contains two figures showing the results of experiments on weed counts and diazotrophic species richness. Figure 1 shows that a combination of biofilm biofertilizers and half the normal amount of chemical fertilizers was the most effective treatment for controlling hard weeds on a tea estate, both reducing weed counts the fastest and exhausting the seed bank. Figure 2 demonstrates that the microbial biofilm used to create the biofilm biofertilizers contained significantly more diazotrophic species than either a standard nutrient solution or distilled water, indicating its potential to fix nitrogen in soil.

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    yield comparison Bio-film biofertilisers vs. synthetic fertilizers

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    This document contains two figures showing the results of experiments on weed counts and diazotrophic species richness. Figure 1 shows that a combination of biofilm biofertilizers and half the normal amount of chemical fertilizers was the most effective treatment for controlling hard weeds on a tea estate, both reducing weed counts the fastest and exhausting the seed bank. Figure 2 demonstrates that the microbial biofilm used to create the biofilm biofertilizers contained significantly more diazotrophic species than either a standard nutrient solution or distilled water, indicating its potential to fix nitrogen in soil.

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    Biofilm Biofertilisers - Some Unpublished Results

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    This document contains two figures showing the results of experiments on weed counts and diazotrophic species richness. Figure 1 shows that a combination of biofilm biofertilizers and half the normal amount of chemical fertilizers was the most effective treatment for controlling hard weeds on a tea estate, both reducing weed counts the fastest and exhausting the seed bank. Figure 2 demonstrates that the microbial biofilm used to create the biofilm biofertilizers contained significantly more diazotrophic species than either a standard nutrient solution or distilled water, indicating its potential to fix nitrogen in soil.

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    TRI Ratnapura

    25

    Weed count

    20
    BFBF + 1/2 CF Hard

    15

    BFBF + 1/2 CF Soft


    10

    CF only Hard
    CF only Soft

    5
    0
    0

    Time (months)

    Fig. 1. Hard and soft weed count on a tea estate in Ratnapura (Ratnapura TRI research station). BFBF Biofilm biofertilisers. CF Chemical fertilizers. This clearly shows early seed dormancy breaking and
    exhaustion of hard weed seed bank in the BFBF + CF treatment with continued weed control. This is
    an ideal way of weed control with the BFBF application.

    Diazotropic species richness

    7
    6
    5
    4
    3

    Nutrient solution

    Distilled water

    2
    1
    0
    Microbial biofilm

    Fig. 2. Diazotrophic (N2 fixers) species richness in microbial biofilm (BFBF), nutrient solution used for
    growing the biofilm, and distilled water added soil pots. Different letters on the columns show
    significant differences at 5% probability level. Vertical bars on the columns show standard errors.

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