An experiment was carried out to test the compatibility between peanut seed treated with the fungicides captan, PCNB and thiram with rhizobia inoculation. The application of the fungicides was done either simultaneously or ten days before the inoculation of the seeds. A control, without inoculation, was included. Countings of rhizobia on the seed were made immediately after inoculation and four hours after, by dilution and drop plating technique. In order to study the effect of treatments on nodulation and nitrogen fixation, treated and untreated seeds were planted in gamma irradiated soil and nodulation and leaf ureid content were later evaluated. It was observed that only captan applied to the seed simultaneously with inoculation was significantly deleterious to survival of the rhizobia. In general the application of the fungicide ten days before inoculation caused no significant harmfull effect to survival of rhizobia on the seed.
Rhizobium- fungicide compatibility; peanut; Arachis hypogaea L