ABSTRACT
As-contaminated (mean total As 15 mg/kg) rice fields from Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, India (Srivastava et al., 2015). The consortia treatments were prepared as spore suspension (T2); fungal biomass (T3), and talc-based formulation (T4). The soil without any fungal consortia application was set as the control (T1). For the experiment, fungal treatments were applied into the upper layer (0-6 cm) of soil column and kept for incubation for 7d. Further, nursery-grown 10d old rice seedlings transplanted into each soil column. Soil columns irrigated with an As solution (10 mg/L) as per rice agronomy practice for 3 months. No extra fertilizer and weedicide were used.
