Promotive effect of the Cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum on the growth of some crop plants

The effect of cjanobacterium as a biofertilizer on seed germiantion and related processes af wheat, sorghum, maize and lentil were investigated. Germination of seeds of the tested crop plants either in live inoculum, algal filtrate (exogenous), or boiled algal extract (endogenous) by the nitrogen fixer cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum, leads to a significant increase in growth parameters as well as nitrogenous compounds over controls. The stimulatory effect on seed germination was obtained in following order: wheat - maize - sorghum - lentil