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Restoration Ecology
Field tests are crucial to validate laboratory microbial inoculation results. The study showed bacteria inoculation increased soil nitrogen and respiration in degraded mine soil, while a bacteria-cyanobacteria mix only altered...
ASM
Mitigating climate change in soil ecosystems involves complex plant and microbial processes regulating carbon pools and flows. Here, we advocate for the use of soil microbiome interventions to help increase...
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
Native core microbiomes are crucial for enhancing plant production, yet are often overlooked in synthetic communities (SynComs). In this study, four SynComs were developed, finding that SC2, which includes native...
Microbiological Research
Under saline stress, inoculating maize with ACC deaminase-producing PGPB or co-inoculating with AMF improved plant growth. PGPB enhanced chlorophyll content, while AMF co-inoculation boosted mycorrhizal colonization and reduced Na+ accumulation,...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPMs) enhance plant resilience to salt stress by improving water and nutrient uptake, producing osmoprotectants, and activating stress-response genes. They bolster plant growth and support agriculture in...
Nature
Two novel endophytic bacteria, Bacillus cereus (ADJ1) and Priestia aryabhattai (ADJ6), isolated from Agave desmettiana, exhibit strong plant growth-promoting traits. Both strains improve wheat germination and yield under high salinity,...
Soil Use and Management
Soil amendments can significantly enhance soil quality and ryegrass growth in alpine grasslands. This study compared the effects of cattle manure, straw, and mushroom substrate on soil properties and ryegrass...
Future Forests
Nutrients regulate ecosystems, affecting future productivity and carbon sequestration. Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) limit plant growth, with P limiting tropical, subtropical, and temperate broadleaved forests, and N limiting boreal...
Plant Stress
Halotolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (HT-PGPR) are effective in stimulating growth, improving nutritional values and yields, and increasing tolerance/resistance to abiotic/biotic stress conditions of plants. This review highlights HT-PGPR's role in...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Combining plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and nanoparticles (NPs) offers a promising strategy for enhancing soil quality and crop yields under adverse conditions. This review highlights how PGPR and NPs interact...
Plant Endophytes and Secondary Metabolites
Plant diseases from pathogens and pests cause 20%–40% of global crop losses, threatening food security. Agrochemicals often control these issues but lead to pollution, resistance, and health risks. This chapter...
Nature
Intercropping peanuts with maize and oilseed rape alters rhizosphere metabolite profiles and enhances nitrogen fixation. Over 8 years, changes in peanut metabolite accumulation (flavonoids and coumarins) boosted growth and nitrogen...
Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
Potassium is essential for plant growth, but its availability is often limited by soil fixation and leaching. Potassium solubilizing microbes (KSMs) enhance potassium availability in soil through organic acid secretion...
Nature
Microbiome engineering can be hindered when bacterial inoculants inadvertently support native microbiomes. Soil experiments revealed that Pseudomona's inoculants failed to thrive due to nutrient competition and facilitation of resident bacteria....
Nature
Root-associated microbial communities in sugar maple seedlings are driven by soil pH, calcium, and distance to trees, with elevation having a minor role. Changes in fungal communities mediate soil pH...
Nature
This study examines the short-term effects of land degradation and restoration on soil bacterial communities in Brazilian semiarid regions. Using 16S rRNA sequencing, it finds distinct bacterial patterns between degraded,...
Plant Stress
The pre-treatment of olive plants with Pseudomonas reactans Ph3R3 promoted olive performance and tolerance to drought by improving leaf biomass, soil C and N availability, and leaf water content in...
Current Plant Biology
Bacillus siamensis strain BW, isolated from rhizospheric soil, effectively mitigates salt stress in rice. This strain improved seed germination and growth in a saline soil (75–150 mM NaCl). BW produces...
Nature
Root-associated microbiomes in soybeans show dynamic changes influenced by unbalanced fertilization. Lack of N alters bacterial communities, while absence of P reduces bacterial load. A SynCom from low-nitrogen conditions can...
Nature
Soil fertility affects microbial functions and diversity. In the tropical pastures of Brazil, high fertility (HF) soils showed greater bacterial diversity and complex interactions, with dominant Proteobacteria and enriched nitrogen-cycling...
Cell
Sphingomonas panaciterrae (PB20) significantly improved spinach growth and nutritional profile. Seed priming increased plant height by 65.65%, fresh weight by 37.41%, and vitamin C by 94.6%. Foliar application boosted nutrient...
Journal of Environmental Management
Land desertification in Brazil’s semiarid region is driven by human activities like overgrazing and deforestation, leading to soil erosion, loss of vegetation, and decreased soil health. Restoration practices such as...
New Phytologist Foundation
Genomic advances have enhanced our understanding of mycorrhizal fungi's role in soil health and ecosystem sustainability. With over 250 fungal genomes sequenced, key genes regulating symbiosis and nutrient uptake have...
Science of The Total Environment
A global meta-analysis of 568 comparisons across 137 studies found that replacing chemical fertilizers with organic ones significantly reduces N2O emissions but increases CO2 and CH4 emissions, raising the global...
Earth System Science Data
Field, greenhouse, and lab experiments revealed that monocropping reduces the ability of rhizosphere microbiomes to suppress peanut root rot compared to crop rotations. Depleted key taxa in monocropping led to...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Combining Azotobacter chroococcum 76A and Trichoderma afroharzianum T22 significantly improved tomato yield by 48.5% and enhanced plant water relations under reduced water and nitrogen conditions. The microbial inoculum increased rhizosphere...
Archives of Microbiology
Bacterial communities drive ecosystem stability and functions under global change, but their specific roles are complex. In soils, while bacterial diversity correlates with some ecosystem processes like carbon mineralization, key...
MDPI
Abscisic acid (ABA), crucial for plant stress response, can inhibit seed germination and root growth. Rhodococcus sp. P1Y, a rhizosphere bacterium, metabolizes soil ABA as its sole carbon source. This...
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 unveils the microbial dark matter of soils by reconstructing 40,039 metagenome-assembled genome bins from 3304 soil metagenomes, identifying 16,530 novel species-level genome bins (uSGBs). These uSGBs enhance our...
MDPI
Microbial carbon metabolism shifts with drought and rewetting. Initially, microbes respire existing carbon pools (12CO2), with new carbon (13C-labeled glucose) metabolized after 15 minutes. This sequential carbon pool utilization highlights...
Nature
Microorganisms significantly alter soil properties through biochemical and biophysical processes, impacting microbiome assembly and local ecology. This review explores how microbes modify soil physics, hydrology, and chemistry, and discusses how...
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...
MDPI
Rhizobiome transplantation is a promising approach to enhance plant protection and crop production beyond traditional microbial inoculation. This review compares single-strain, dual, and consortium applications, assesses other microbial communities like...
PLOS Biology
Manipulating the microbiome of cropland soils has the potential to accelerate soil carbon sequestration, but strategies to do so need to be carefully vetted. Here, we highlight the general steps...
Nature
Soil microbiota significantly impacts plant performance, and bio-organic fertilizers can enhance this effect. In a long-term field experiment with cabbage, adding Trichoderma guizhouense to organic fertilizers increased plant biomass by...
ESA
Across 21 dryland sites, RestoreNet evaluated seeding and soil surface treatments (pits, mulch, ConMod) over 3 years. Soil treatments and timing of precipitation significantly improved seedling emergence, while near-term climate-adapted...
Nature
Forestation significantly contributes to carbon sequestration, storing 913.19 ± 47.58 Tg C in northern China, with 74% in biomass and 26% in soil. This large-scale study of 25304 trees and...
New Phytologist Foundation
Native synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) enhanced maize growth more effectively than commercial plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) in low-fertility soils, increasing root-to-shoot ratios by 78-121% compared to 23-86% with PGPRs. SynComs...
PubMed
Regenerating SOC in agricultural soils can mitigate global warming and sustain food production. This meta-analysis reveals that practices such as no-till, cropping system intensification, and integrated crop-livestock (ICL) increase particulate...
Agricultural Water Management
Bacillus subtilis improved cotton growth and soil nitrogen efficiency under salt stress. Optimal results were achieved with 5.0 mg·kg⁻¹ Bacillus subtilis and 300 kg·hm⁻² nitrogen fertilizer, increasing cotton yield by...
MDPI
In the past 15–20 years, the use of Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) has significantly increased, demonstrating effectiveness beyond laboratory settings to field conditions. This review discusses recent reports on various PGPB...
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...
MDPI
Soil microbes in saline-alkali lands can significantly enhance soil carbon sequestration by forming inorganic carbon. This study isolated microbes from the Yellow River Delta and identified ten strains (bacterial and...
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...
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) enhance plant growth through metabolite production, enzyme activities, nutrient mobilization, and biocontrol, while also offering bioremediation benefits. PGPR can replace harmful agrochemicals, promoting sustainable agriculture. This...
