Bacteria play a variety of roles in the environment. They maintain the balance in the
ecosystem and provide different ecosystem services such as in biogeochemical cycling of …

Seed coating is considered one of the best methods to promote sustainable agriculture
where the physical and physiological properties of seeds can be improved to facilitate …

Plant roots interact with an enormous diversity of commensal, mutualistic, and pathogenic
microbes, which poses a big challenge to roots to distinguish beneficial microbes from …

Food security has become the most challenging task in the current scenario of population
growth and the future perspective in the everchanging environment. Cultivation and …

Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas are ubiquitous in nature. Pseudomonads display a
fascinating metabolic diversity, which correlates with their ability to colonize an extremely …

Great potential exists to harness plant traits at the root–soil interface, mainly rhizodeposition
and root hairs, to 'build'soils with better structure that can trap more carbon and resources …

Pseudomonas protegens are multi-talented plant-colonizing bacteria that suppress plant
pathogens and stimulate plant defenses. In addition, they are capable of invading and killing …

Soil disease‐suppressiveness depends on complex interactions among pathogens, native
microbiota, and physicochemical properties, while these interactions remain understudied …

The profound negative effect of inorganic chemical fertilizer application on rhizobacterial
diversity has been well documented using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and …

Programmed cell death in plants occurs both during stress responses and as an integral part
of regular plant development. Despite the undisputed importance of developmentally …