Abstract:In this study, pot experiments were carried out with Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis and Dallergia odorifera seedlings as research objects, and two groups of treatments and one group of control were set up as follows: E. urophylla × E. grandis was inoculated with Bacillus megaterium, but D. odorifera was not inoculated (BM); D. odorifera was inoculated with Rhizobium japonicum, but E. urophylla × E. grandis was not inoculated (RJ); neither E. urophylla × E. grandis nor D. odorifera were inoculated (control group, CK). The effects of two kinds of growth-promoting bacterial inoculation treatments on photosynthetic physiology, growth, and biomass accumulation and distribution in E. urophylla×E. grandis-D. odorifera seedlings were clarified, and the advantages of inoculation for growth promotion were also discussed. The results showed that: (1) The BM treatment significantly reduced the chlorophyll content (Chl) of E. urophylla × E. grandis (P<0.05), both BM and RJ treatments increased the plant height, ground diameter, nitrogen content of leaves, net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, and transpiration rate, but decreased the intercellular CO2 concentration. (2) The RJ treatment improved the biomass accumulation of the leaves and whole plant of E. urophylla × E.grandis and D. odorifera, while BM improved the leaves biomass of E. urophylla × E.grandis and the biomass accumulation of D. odorifera including roots, stems, leaves, and whole plant (P<0.05). (3) The net photosynthetic rates in leaves of both seedlings being positively correlated with biomass under all treatments. These results suggest that the physiological metabolism of intercropped E. urophylla × E. grandis-D. odorifera seedlings were stimulated by the inoculation of Bacillus megaterium or Rhizobium japonicum, and both growth-promoting bacteria promote the accumulation of plant biomass by boosting photosynthesis in both seedlings. In terms of biomass changes, the altruistic effect of the inoculated strains was more obvious.