Enhancement of desalination process for potable water productivity in a low cost spherical solar still with charcoal absorber

Abstract :

Crotalaria juncia L. is one of the important essential legume fodder crop plant, commonly called Sunn hemp belonging to the family Fabaceae of angiosperms. The young and lateral root sample were collected at four localities. Samples were screened for VAM colonization and their root-zone soils were analysed for VAM fungal spores sporocarps in relation to soil physico –chemical characters by using wet – sieving and decanting techniques.Glomus aggregatum and Glomus fasiculatum were the abundant species in all the study localities. Onion plants (Allium cepa L.)used for the best suitable host plants for mass inoculam production by Glomus aggregatum, Glomus mosseae, Gigaspora morgatia had siginificantly highest percent root colonization (94±1.4 ). The inoculation of onion with native Glomus aggregatum can become a great boon to the agriculturist, in minimizing the requirements of costly phosphate fertilizer in onion cultivation.