The Effect of Mychorrizha Enriched Seed Encapsulation to Soybean Growth and Yield

Abstract

The high number of soybean's import  has led to various efforts to increase soybean production through increasing productivity, expanding planting areas, and improving management. One that can be done in maximizing soybean performance is the application of biological fertilizer such as mycorrhiza because  it was able  to increase nutrien tuptake and water and even drought tolerance. This study aims to determine the effect of encapsulation of soybean seeds enriched with mycorrhiza and explain the effect of mycorrhiza on soybean growth and yield. This study used three soybean varieties namely Anjasmoro, Grobogan, and Argomulyo which treated with encapsulation + mycorrhiza, mycorrhiza addition, and without mycorrhiza. The observation include number of pods per plant, number of seeds per plant, percentage of filled pods per plant, seed weight per plant and weight of 100 seeds. Data on seed weight per plant showed significantly different among varieties and Anjasmoro was the highest. The application of mycorrhiza through seed encapsulation did not improve the soybean performance.