%0 Journal Article %T The Effects of Some Microbial Inoculants on Water Relationships and Agronomic Indices of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) in a Saline Soil %J Iranian Journal of Soil and Water Research %I University of Tehran %Z 2008-479X %A Shirmardi, M. %A Savaghebi firoozabadi, Gh. R. %A Khavazi, K. %A Farahbakhsh, M. %A Rejali, F. %A Sadat, A. V. %D 2011 %\ 01/21/2011 %V 41 %N 2 %P 221-228 %! The Effects of Some Microbial Inoculants on Water Relationships and Agronomic Indices of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) in a Saline Soil %K . %K mycorrhiza fungi %K Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria %K relative water content %K salinity %R %X The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, with the ability to produce ACC deaminase enzyme, on water relationships and agronomic indices of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) cultivars was investigated. The soil used was of an EC equal to 7.6 dS m-1. A greenhouse factorial experiment on the basis of a completely randomized block design with three levels of arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculants ¬(non inoculation¬, inoculation with¬ Glomus etunicatum and G. intradices), four levels of Pseudomonas fluorescens¬ inoculants (non inoculation , inoculation with P. fluorescens strains 4¬,9,12) on two cultivars of sunflower (Euroflor¬ and ¬Master) with four replications per treatment was conducted. Results indicated that treatments significantly (P %U https://ijswr.ut.ac.ir/article_21871_cca3e8a6cb12c55ee7ac2f50a5de51df.pdf