Beneficial bacteria of agricultural importance

OO Babalola - Biotechnology letters, 2010 - Springer
The rhizosphere is the soil–plant root interphase and in practice consists of the soil adhering
to the root besides the loose soil surrounding it. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria …

Piriformospora indica: A Novel Plant Growth-Promoting Mycorrhizal Fungus

A Varma, M Bakshi, B Lou, A Hartmann… - Agricultural …, 2012 - Springer
Piriformospora indica, a member of the newly created order Sebacinales, is extremely
versatile in its mycorrhizal associations and its ability to promote plant growth. P. indica is …

Halotolerant rhizobacteria promote growth and enhance salinity tolerance in peanut

S Sharma, J Kulkarni, B Jha - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Use of Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) is a promising strategy to improve the
crop production under optimal or sub-optimal conditions. In the present study, five …

Thirty-one years of rice-rice-green manure rotations shape the rhizosphere microbial community and enrich beneficial bacteria

X Zhang, R Zhang, J Gao, X Wang, F Fan, X Ma… - Soil Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Green manure rotation is commonly used to increase soil fertility and improve crop yield.
However, the effects of this management practice on the underground microbial ecosystem …

The roots of the halophyte Salicornia brachiata are a source of new halotolerant diazotrophic bacteria with plant growth-promoting potential

B Jha, I Gontia, A Hartmann - Plant and Soil, 2012 - Springer
Soil salinity is the major cause limiting plant productivity worldwide. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria
were enriched and characterised from roots of Salicornia brachiata, an extreme halophyte …

Inoculation of root microorganisms for sustainable wheat–rice and wheat–black gram rotations in India

P Mäder, F Kaiser, A Adholeya, R Singh… - Soil Biology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The scarcity of non-renewable resources such as soils and fertilizers and the consequences
of climate change can dramatically influence the food security of future generations …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of Zn solubilizing bacteria on growth promotion and Zn nutrition of rice

SK Vaid, B Kumar, A Sharma, AK Shukla… - Journal of soil science …, 2014 - SciELO Chile
A comparison study between the isolated indigenous bacteria and chemical Zn fertilizer
(ZnSO4. 7H2O) was conducted to evaluate their potential to augment Zn nutrition of Zn …

Selection of phosphate-solubilizing diazotrophic Herbaspirillum and Burkholderia strains and their effect on rice crop yield and nutrient uptake

GA Estrada, VLD Baldani, DM de Oliveira, S Urquiaga… - Plant and soil, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background and Aims Plant growth-promoting bacteria, mainly diazotrophs and
phosphate solubilizers, can reduce the use of chemical fertilizers for rice crops. Here …

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria alleviate salinity induced negative effects on growth, oil content and physiological status in Mentha arvensis

N Bharti, D Barnawal, A Awasthi, A Yadav… - Acta Physiologiae …, 2014 - Springer
This study was aimed to investigate the effect of inoculation on three salt-tolerant, plant-
growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) STR2 (Bacillus pumilus), STR8 (Halomonas …

Prospecting plant growth promoting bacteria and cyanobacteria as options for enrichment of macro-and micronutrients in grains in rice–wheat cropping sequence

A Rana, SR Kabi, S Verma, A Adak, M Pal… - Cogent Food & …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The influence of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) and cyanobacteria, alone and in
combination, was investigated on micronutrient enrichment and yield in rice–wheat …