Microbial inoculants: reviewing the past, discussing the present and previewing an outstanding future for the use of beneficial bacteria in agriculture

MS Santos, MA Nogueira, M Hungria - Amb Express, 2019 - Springer
More than one hundred years have passed since the development of the first microbial
inoculant for plants. Nowadays, the use of microbial inoculants in agriculture is spread …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Plant growth promoting bacteria as an alternative strategy for salt tolerance in plants: a review

M Numan, S Bashir, Y Khan, R Mumtaz… - Microbiological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Approximately 5.2 billion hectare agriculture land are affected by erosion, salinity and soil
degradation. Salinity stress has significantly affecting the fertile lands, and therefore …

[图书][B] Plant microbiomes for sustainable agriculture: current research and future challenges

AN Yadav - 2020 - Springer
The plant microbiomes play important role in plant growth promotion and soil fertility for
sustainable agriculture. Plant and soil are valuable natural resource harbouring hotspots of …

Biofertilizers: a potential approach for sustainable agriculture development

T Mahanty, S Bhattacharjee, M Goswami… - … Science and Pollution …, 2017 - Springer
The worldwide increase in human population raises a big threat to the food security of each
people as the land for agriculture is limited and even getting reduced with time. Therefore, it …

The hidden world within plants: ecological and evolutionary considerations for defining functioning of microbial endophytes

PR Hardoim, LS Van Overbeek, G Berg… - Microbiology and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
All plants are inhabited internally by diverse microbial communities comprising bacterial,
archaeal, fungal, and protistic taxa. These microorganisms showing endophytic lifestyles …

Everything you must know about Azospirillum and its impact on agriculture and beyond

F Cassán, A Coniglio, G López, R Molina… - Biology and Fertility of …, 2020 - Springer
Azospirillum is one of the most studied plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB); it
represents a common model for plant-bacterial interactions. While Azospirillum brasilense is …

Biofertilizers function as key player in sustainable agriculture by improving soil fertility, plant tolerance and crop productivity

D Bhardwaj, MW Ansari, RK Sahoo, N Tuteja - Microbial cell factories, 2014 - Springer
Current soil management strategies are mainly dependent on inorganic chemical-based
fertilizers, which caused a serious threat to human health and environment. The exploitation …

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and root system functioning

J Vacheron, G Desbrosses, ML Bouffaud… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The rhizosphere supports the development and activity of a huge and diversified microbial
community, including microorganisms capable to promote plant growth. Among the latter …

Endophytic microbes: biodiversity, plant growth-promoting mechanisms and potential applications for agricultural sustainability

KL Rana, D Kour, T Kaur, R Devi, AN Yadav… - Antonie Van …, 2020 - Springer
Endophytic microbes are known to live asymptomatically inside their host throughout
different stages of their life cycle and play crucial roles in the growth, development, fitness …