Evaluation of Phosphate Solubilizing Activity of Bacteria Isolated from Earthworm Gut and Seaweed Vermicompost

Five bacterial strains were isolated for primary screening to test the phosphate solubilizing activity fromseaweed fed earthworm gut and seaweed vermicompost. The selected three bacteria were tested for phosphatesolubilizing activity in Pikovskaya’s broth amendedwith 250mg of TCP. Among the bacteria, maximum phosphatesolubilization was observed in B. licheniformis i. e., 795.3 ±10.5μg/ml. 16S rRNA sequence of most efficient bacteria,Bacillus licheniformis strain APSAC 04 was deposited inthe NCBI Gen bank with the following accession numberKY886136 for further retrieval and comparison.