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Applied Soil Ecology
Inoculation with Streptomyces albidoflavus T4 and S. pactum Act12 enhances naked oat growth and yield by 21.5%–27.4% in drylands. These Actinobacteria reshape rhizosphere bacterial communities, increasing beneficial taxa and soil...
Nature
Indoor environments serve as habitat for humans and are replete with various reservoirs and niches for microorganisms. Microorganisms enter indoor spaces with their human and non-human hosts, as well as...
Semafor
Maasai communities in Kenya are challenging carbon offset projects, arguing they sell carbon credits without fair local benefits
Nature
Streptomyces improve plant drought and salinity stress tolerance by producing spiroketal polyketides, pteridic acid H and its isomer F, which enhance Arabidopsis' root growth. These compounds upregulate stress-responsive genes, suggesting...
Nature
This study expands the role of Calcium in SOC persistence from solely a driver of physico-chemical reactions to a mediator of coupled abiotic-biotic cycling of SOC. Here, Ca promoted hyphae-forming...
Nature
This review emphasizes the importance of plant resilience to drought and phosphorus (P) stress for global food security. It explores how rhizobacterial consortia in legume-cereal intercropping systems can enhance growth...
Heliyon
Laboratory-developed cyanobacterium-fungal biofilm enhances plant growth, tomato fruit quality, soil nutrients, and enzyme activities, particularly under elevated CO2, and reduces nitrogen fertilizer use by 50%, showing promise for CO2 sequestration.
Rhizosphere
Streptomyces spp., a key genus in Actinobacteria, show promise in agriculture. They promote plant growth and biocontrol of pests, diseases, and weeds through the production of phytohormones, siderophores, enzymes, and...
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Microbes can enhance plant growth under stress, but their role in sustaining turfgrass during drought is unclear. In bermudagrass, drought increased root endophytic Actinobacteria, particularly Streptomyces. Irrigation at ≤40% ET...
Frontiers in Microbiology
Biopriming with beneficial microorganisms enhances seed germination and seedling vigor, offering an eco-friendly alternative to chemical treatments. This study showed that several bacterial isolates from diverse environments can solubilize nutrients...
MDPI
This review covers the role of phytohormones produced by plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) in regulating plant growth under stress. It discusses recent advances in bacterial phytohormone functions, their beneficial effects...
Journal of Applied Microbiology
Harnessing the rhizosphere microbiome to benefit crops is still in development, despite extensive advances in horticulture tools. Plants selectively recruit beneficial microbes through root exudates, enhancing nutrition and stress resilience....
Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
Inoculation of bacterial strains isolated from saline soils promotes oat plant growth, which may be a promising strategy to improve salt–resistance in plants. In this study, inoculation with the salt-tolerant...
Pedosphere
The use of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) can significantly enhance phosphorus (P) uptake and use efficiency in rice, while reducing the need for chemical fertilizers. In a two-year field trial, a...
Science of The Total Environment
Microbe-aided phytoremediation offers a cost-effective, eco-friendly alternative for remediating metal-contaminated soils, addressing the limitations of conventional methods. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) enhance metal removal through various mechanisms, such as adsorption...
Journal of Hazardous Materials
This study explored the metabolomic interactions between Pteris vittata and its rhizospheric microorganisms during arsenic (As) phytoextraction. Increased water-soluble As and decreased soil pH indicated that acidic metabolites enhance As...
Nature
Application of Trichoderma bio-organic fertilizer (BF) significantly improved crop growth and yield compared to organic fertilizer (OF) in a three-year field study. Soil analysis revealed that BF influenced soil fungal...
Science of The Total Environment
This study investigated the role of plant-associated bacteria in enhancing phytoremediation of lead (Pb) and arsenic (As) in grey willow (Salix atrocinerea) on a contaminated brownfield. Pyrosequencing revealed diverse bacterial...
Journal of Environmental Sciences
Intercropping eggplant with the hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii and inoculating it with endophytic bacteria SaMR12 improved soil nutrient availability and enhanced Cd phytoextraction, despite inhibiting plant growth. While intercropping increased Cd...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Root system architecture (RSA) in Cupressus funebris adapts to varying environmental variations and soil conditions by altering its foraging strategies to optimize resource acquisition like water and nutrient uptake. This...
Soil Use and Management
The growing demand for soil microbial inoculants in agriculture is driven by the need for sustainable crop production and pest management. While some inoculants, like rhizobia, have proven effective, others...
New Phytologist Foundation
Understanding how root metabolites influence plant-microbe interactions under environmental stress is crucial. Recent advances suggest that synthetic biology approaches can fine-tune root metabolomes to improve plant stress resistance, providing promising...
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Drought manipulation in wheat fields revealed that bacterial community composition varies significantly between plant compartments, not due to precipitation. Osmotic stress-resistant microorganisms were less represented in the rhizosphere than in...
Annals of Botany
Long, dense root hairs significantly enhance nitrogen (N) acquisition in maize by increasing root surface area and soil exploration, particularly under low-N conditions. Simulation and field studies show that maize...
Plant Physiology
This review highlights how plant roots adapt their architecture to cope with abiotic stresses such as heat, cold, drought, salt, and flooding. It discusses recent findings on root system architecture...
Frontiers in Microbiology
Drought reduces root microbial diversity and alters the composition in Populus trees, notably increasing Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria. Beneficial microbes, including Streptomyces rochei and Bacillus arbutinivorans, were isolated from drought-stressed...
MDPI
Drought stress restructures grapevine root microbial communities. Under reduced irrigation (25% field capacity), fungal composition shifted significantly, with the root endosphere showing the greatest change. Black-foot disease fungi increased at...
Plant and Soil
Root anatomical phenotypes are crucial for optimizing soil resource acquisition in crops. They influence soil exploration, rhizosphere interactions, and transport efficiency. Key anatomical traits, such as those affecting metabolic costs,...
ASM
Four newly isolated plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains enhanced Arabidopsis thaliana growth through ACC deaminase activity, indole acetic acid production, and phosphorus solubilization. Some strains also provided protection against pathogens,...
Plant, Cell & Environment
Modulating root growth angle enhances nutrient and water acquisition, improving crop performance under stress. This study in maize revealed several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) linked to root angle; one of...
Nature
Lower order roots exert the greatest selective pressure on microbial communities, impacting microbial composition and abundance. This study found that lower order roots of six temperate tree species have a...
MDPI
Plant roots play a crucial role in soil ecosystems, affecting carbon and nutrient cycling, weathering, and soil formation. Cover crops enhance soil quality by reducing nutrient loss and improving water...
Frontiers in Microbiology
This study analyzed maize rhizosphere microbiota along the root axis, finding high variability and shifts in microbial community composition. Root tips exhibited random assembly, while more deterministic processes influenced communities...
Cell
Using TRAP-seq, root responses to Verticillium longisporum, Phytophthora parasitica, and Serendipita indica revealed distinct reactions to pathogens and mutualists: pathogen suppression of endodermal barriers and differential antimicrobial compound production. This...
Frontiers in Microbiology
The distribution of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase gene (acdS)-carrying bacteria in the maize rhizosphere is influenced by soil type, depth, and root hairs. Amplicon sequencing revealed that acdS-carrying bacteria, mostly Actinobacteria and...
Microbial Ecology
Root diameter and depth significantly affect bacterial community composition and network dynamics. In black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), bacterial alpha diversity decreased with root diameter, with coarse roots (>2 mm)...
Journal of Experimental Botany
Enhancing root system traits in cereals through integrated genomic and phenomic approaches is crucial for improving yield and sustainability under drought stress. This review explores root system variations in cereals...
PNAS
The tomato rhizosphere microbiome influences root exudate composition via a systemic root–root signalling mechanism. This study showed that microbial colonization of one root can alter exudate composition in a distant...
