2.1 Microbial consortia development for pot and field experiments
Isolation of chickpea seed endophytic bacteria and their biochemical, molecular characterization and primary plant growth promoting test was done previously (Mukherjee et al., 2020b). Depending on the all plant growth promoting property we have selected two strains and prepared their consortia depending on the compatibility. We have checked all plant growth promoting biochemical property of microbial consortia by the methods followed by Mukherjee et al. (2020b).