BIO-Fertilizers

Presented by Maryam Naveed

   Introduction
 Biofertilizers are substances that contain
microorganisms, which when added to the soil
increase its fertility and promotes plant growth.
 The micro-organisms which act as bio-fertilizers
are mycorrhizal fungi, cyanobacteria (blue-
green algae), and bacteria.
   Types of Bio-Fertilizers

1. Free living nitrogen fixing bacteria

2. Free living nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria

3. Loose association of nitrogen fixing bacteria

4. Symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria

5. Symbiotic nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria

6. Microphos Bio-Fertilizer

7. Mycorrhiza (Ectomycorrhiza and endomycorrhiza

  1.Free living nitrogen fixing bacteria

 They live freely in soil and perform nitrogen

fixation. some of them saprotrophic (live on
organic remains) 
 For example:  Azotobacter, Bacillus Polymyxa,
Clostridium