Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 42, Pages 58915-58928Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-13109-z
Keywords
Biofertilizer; Chitino-proteolytic bacteria; Crustacean shell; Fermented hydrolysate; Leguminous plant
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- Department of Science & Technology and Biotechnology, Govt. ofWest Bengal, India [532/(Sanc.)\ST/P/ST/2G-48/2018]
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The study demonstrated the proficient and sustainable utilization of fermented hydrolysate of waste crustacean shell as a biofertilizer, successfully promoting the growth of leguminous plants while improving the physico-chemical properties of soil. Additionally, the application of the fermented hydrolysate selectively encouraged the growth of beneficial nitrogen-fixing and phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in the rhizosphere, indicating its potential as an ideal biofertilizer for sustainable agriculture practices.
Crustacean shell waste disposal is considered as biggest problem in seafood processing centers. Incineration and landfilling are the commonest ways of disposal of the waste which causes environmental pollution. Microbial bio-conversion is one of the promising approaches to minimize the wastes by utilizing the same for deriving different value added metabolites. In this perspective, chitinase- and protease-producing bacterial strains were isolated from shrimp culture pond, and the potent isolate was subsequently identified as Alcaligenes faecalis SK10. Fermentative optimization of the production of chitinase (85.42 U/ml), protease (58.57 U/ml), and their catalytic products, viz., N-acetylamino sugar (84 mu g/ml) and free amino acids (112 mu g/ml), were carried out by utilizing shrimp and crab shell powder as principal substrate. The fermented hydrolysate (FH) was subsequently applied to evaluate its potential to be a candidate fertilizer for the growth of leguminous plant Pisum sativum and Cicer arietinum, and the results were compared with chitin, chitosan, and commercial biofertilizer amended group. The results revealed that FH have paramount potential to improve plants morpho-physiological parameters like stem and root length, chlorophyll, cellular RNA, protein content, and soil physico-chemical parameters like total nitrogen, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, and potassium significantly (p < 0.05). Moreover, the application of FH also selectively encouraged the growth of free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Rhizobium, phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in the soil by 4.82- and 5.27-, 5.57- and 4.71, and 7.64- and 6.92-fold, respectively, in the rhizosphere of P. sativum and C. arietinum, which collectively is a good sign for an ideal biofertilizer. Co-supplementation of FH with commercial PGPR-biofertilizer significantly influenced the morpho-physiological attributes of plant and physico-chemical and microbial attributes of soil. The study validated proficient and sustainable utilization of fermented hydrolysate of waste crustacean shell as biofertilizer.
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