Agricultural sustainability: microbial biofertilizers in rhizosphere management

OA Fasusi, C Cruz, OO Babalola - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
The world's human population continues to increase, posing a significant challenge in
ensuring food security, as soil nutrients and fertility are limited and decreasing with time …

Exploiting biological nitrogen fixation: a route towards a sustainable agriculture

A Soumare, AG Diedhiou, M Thuita, M Hafidi… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
For all living organisms, nitrogen is an essential element, while being the most limiting in
ecosystems and for crop production. Despite the significant contribution of synthetic …

Roles of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in stimulating salinity stress defense in plants: A review

DM Ha-Tran, TTM Nguyen, SH Hung, E Huang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
To date, soil salinity becomes a huge obstacle for food production worldwide since salt
stress is one of the major factors limiting agricultural productivity. It is estimated that a …

Use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in maize and sugarcane: characteristics and applications

RM dos Santos, PAE Diaz, LLB Lobo… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Free-living bacteria that actively colonize plant roots and provide positive effects on plant
development are called plant-growth promoting. Plant growth-promoting bacteria can …

Promising bacterial genera for agricultural practices: An insight on plant growth-promoting properties and microbial safety aspects

CMH Ferreira, HMVM Soares, EV Soares - Science of the total environment, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to address the ever-increasing problem of the world's population food needs, the
optimization of farming crops yield, the combat of iron deficiency in plants (chlorosis) and the …

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR): A potential alternative tool for nematodes bio-control

PH Mhatre, C Karthik, K Kadirvelu, KL Divya… - Biocatalysis and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing demand of the agricultural produce can be attained by optimizing the
productivity potential and by minimizing the losses caused by notorious plant-parasitic …

Diazotrophic Bacteria Pantoea dispersa and Enterobacter asburiae Promote Sugarcane Growth by Inducing Nitrogen Uptake and Defense-Related Gene …

P Singh, RK Singh, HB Li, DJ Guo, A Sharma… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane is a major crop in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. In China, the
application of large amounts of nitrogen (N) fertilizer to boost sugarcane yield is …

The recent use of plant-growth-promoting bacteria to promote the growth of agricultural food crops

L Reed, BR Glick - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the past 15–20 years, the employment of Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) to
facilitate the growth of agricultural food crops has increased dramatically. These beneficial …

Characterization of rhizobia isolated from leguminous plants and their impact on the growth of ICCV 2 variety of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

MI Mir, BK Kumar, S Gopalakrishnan, S Vadlamudi… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Six rhizobia-like-bacterial strains in total, secluded from the root and stem nodules of various
leguminous plants were characterized for growth promoting ability on ICCV 2 variety of …

Streptomyces-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles for enhanced growth, yield, and grain nutrients in chickpea

P Sambangi, S Gopalakrishnan - Biocatalysis and Agricultural …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present study, two plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains of
Streptomyces griseus (KAI-26 and MMA-32) and one PGPR strain of S. albus (KAI-27) were …