The rhizosphere (soil zone influenced by roots) is a complex environment that harbors
diverse bacterial populations, which have an important role in biogeochemical cycling of …

Soils are living environments in which particularly abundant and diverse microbiome and
fauna are evolving. The resulting biological functioning has a direct impact not only on soil …

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens QST713 and B. firmus I-1582 are bacterial strains which are
used as active ingredients of commercially-available soil application and seed treatment …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 537–545 Abstract Biodiversity is an essential determinant of
ecosystem functioning. Numerous studies described positive effects of diversity on the …

The Inland Pacific Northwest (IPNW) encompasses 1. 6 million cropland hectares and is a
major wheat-producing area in the western United States. The climate throughout the region …

It is the aim of this chapter to present an overview of new, molecular tools that have been
developed over recent years to study individual, single cells and composite, complex …

Azospirillum is a rhizobacterial genus containing plant growth-promoting species associated
with different crops worldwide. Azospirillum brasilense strains exhibit a growth-promoting …

Seed treatments with antagonistic bacteria could reduce the severity of crown and root rot
diseases in wheat crops. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential …

Natural suppressiveness of Swiss soils to Thielaviopsis basicola-mediated tobacco black
root rot is thought to depend mainly on fluorescent pseudomonads producing the …

Azospirillum lipoferum CRT1 is a promising phytostimulatory PGPR for maize, whose effect
on the plant is cell density-dependent. A nested PCR method is available for detection of the …