“…According to the Normative Instruction n°13 of 24/03/2011 from the Brazilian legislation (Brasil, 2011), it is required that the inoculants should be capable of maintaining a minimum concentration of 10 8 viable cells per gram of the product for at least 180 days. Some materials with low cost, described as residues and with potential of use as inoculant carrier, such as sugarcane bagasse, rice husk, wheat bran, charcoal, wood shavings, mining waste, and others, have raised interest of some researchers (Schlemper & Sturmer, 2014;Czerniak & Sturmer, 2014;Silveira et al, 2013;Canellas et al, 2013). However, there are no studies of the usage of cottonseed hull and reports about the physicochemical characterization of composted substrate for inoculation purposes either.…”