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 …

Deciphering Trichoderma–Plant–Pathogen Interactions for Better Development of Biocontrol Applications

A Alfiky, L Weisskopf - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Members of the fungal genus Trichoderma (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Hypocreaceae) are
ubiquitous and commonly encountered as soil inhabitants, plant symbionts, saprotrophs …

Facing climate change: application of microbial biostimulants to mitigate stress in horticultural crops

D Sangiorgio, A Cellini, I Donati, C Pastore, C Onofrietti… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the current scenario of rapidly evolving climate change, crop plants are more frequently
subjected to stresses of both abiotic and biotic origin, including exposure to unpredictable …

The potential role of microbial biostimulants in the amelioration of climate change-associated abiotic stresses on crops

AE Fadiji, OO Babalola, G Santoyo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Crop plants are more often exposed to abiotic stresses in the current age of fast-evolving
climate change. This includes exposure to extreme and unpredictable changes in climatic …

Anthocyanins: Biosynthesis, distribution, ecological role, and use of biostimulants to increase their content in plant foods—A review

G Mannino, C Gentile, A Ertani, G Serio, CM Bertea - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the past century, plant biostimulants have been increasingly used in agriculture as
innovative and sustainable practice. Plant biostimulants have been mainly investigated as …

Diversifying crop rotations enhances agroecosystem services and resilience

C Liu, D Plaza-Bonilla, JA Coulter, HR Kutcher… - Advances in …, 2022 - Elsevier
A significant challenge in our time is to produce sufficient agricultural products on limited
farmable land to meet the needs for food, feed, fiber, and industrial uses in the face of a …

Biostimulants and environmental stress mitigation in crops: A novel and emerging approach for agricultural sustainability under climate change

S Mandal, U Anand, J López-Bucio, M Kumar… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pesticide and fertilizer usage is at the center of agricultural production to meet the demands
of an ever-increasing global population. However, rising levels of chemicals impose a …

An Endophytic Trichoderma Strain Promotes Growth of Its Hosts and Defends Against Pathogen Attack

YH Tseng, H Rouina, K Groten, P Rajani… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plants host numerous endophytic microbes which promote plant performance, in particular
under stress. A new endophytic fungus was isolated from the leaves of a deciduous wood …

Encapsulated plant growth regulators and associative microorganisms: Nature-based solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change on plants

EVR Campos, A do ES Pereira, I Aleksieienko… - Plant Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, the atmospheric CO 2 concentration and global average
temperature have been increasing, and this trend is projected to soon become more severe …

Colonization with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigates cold stress through improvement of antioxidant defense and accumulation of protecting molecules in …

B Pasbani, A Salimi, N Aliasgharzad, R Hajiboland - Scientia Horticulturae, 2020 - Elsevier
Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is a thermophilic species susceptible to cold stress. The
potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) for the amelioration of cold stress in this …