Plant growth-promoting microorganisms as biocontrol agents of plant diseases: Mechanisms, challenges and future perspectives

MT El-Saadony, AM Saad, SM Soliman… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plant diseases and pests are risk factors that threaten global food security. Excessive
chemical pesticide applications are commonly used to reduce the effects of plant diseases …

Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production

FT de Vries, RI Griffiths, CG Knight, O Nicolitch… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Root-associated microbes can improve plant growth, and they offer the potential to increase
crop resilience to future drought. Although our understanding of the complex feedbacks …

[HTML][HTML] Plant survival under drought stress: Implications, adaptive responses, and integrated rhizosphere management strategy for stress mitigation

R Zia, MS Nawaz, MJ Siddique, S Hakim… - Microbiological research, 2021 - Elsevier
In many regions of the world, the incidence and extent of drought spells are predicted to
increase which will create considerable pressure on global agricultural yields. Most likely …

Bacterial plant biostimulants: a sustainable way towards improving growth, productivity, and health of crops

B Hamid, M Zaman, S Farooq, S Fatima, RZ Sayyed… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the field of bacterial plant
biostimulants and considers the fundamental and innovative principles underlying this …

Insights into the interactions among roots, rhizosphere, and rhizobacteria for improving plant growth and tolerance to abiotic stresses: a review

N Khan, S Ali, MA Shahid, A Mustafa, RZ Sayyed… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, heavy metals, variations in temperature, and
ultraviolet (UV) radiation, are antagonistic to plant growth and development, resulting in an …

Efforts towards overcoming drought stress in crops: Revisiting the mechanisms employed by plant growth-promoting bacteria

AE Fadiji, G Santoyo, AN Yadav… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Globally, agriculture is under a lot of pressure due to rising population and corresponding
increases in food demand. However, several variables, including improper mechanization …

PGPR mediated alterations in root traits: way toward sustainable crop production

M Grover, S Bodhankar, A Sharma… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The above ground growth of the plant is highly dependent on the belowground root system.
Rhizosphere is the zone of continuous interplay between plant roots and soil microbial …

Insight into recent progress and perspectives in improvement of antioxidant machinery upon PGPR augmentation in plants under drought stress: a review

HG Gowtham, SB Singh, N Shilpa, M Aiyaz, K Nataraj… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agriculture has a lot of responsibility as the rise in the world's population demands more
food requirements. However, more than one type of biotic and abiotic stress continually …

Plant associated rhizobacteria for biocontrol and plant growth enhancement

X Jiao, Y Takishita, G Zhou, DL Smith - Frontiers in plant science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Crop disease remains a major problem to global food production. Excess use of pesticides
through chemical disease control measures is a serious problem for sustainable agriculture …

Coactive role of zinc oxide nanoparticles and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria for mitigation of synchronized effects of heat and drought stress in wheat plants

A Azmat, Y Tanveer, H Yasmin, MN Hassan… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
This study intended to investigate the potential of the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria
(PGPR) and green synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs)(fruit extract of Papaya) …