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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...
Frontiers in Plant Science
Halo-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) offer a green solution for salinity-affected agriculture by enhancing crop productivity and managing nutrient availability. They improve plant tolerance through VOCs, antioxidants, and phytohormones while...
Journal of Applied Microbiology
The review discusses the potential of actinobacteria, particularly Streptomyces, as sustainable biofertilizers in agriculture. These microorganisms enhance plant growth, yield, and stress resistance, offering a viable alternative to chemical fertilizers....
Frontiers in Plant Science
Streptomyces aureoverticillatus HN6 is an effective biofertilizer for improving soil fertility and controlling plant diseases. Compared to frame composting, natural composting optimizes conditions for higher temperatures and thorough decomposition. The...
Plant and Soil
Phosphorus (P) is crucial for understory plant growth under elevated CO2 (eCO2); P limits plant responses to eCO2 and microorganisms have an indirect role. This commentary discusses the challenges of...
Nature
Soil microbiomes are essential for agroecosystem functions like fertility, productivity, and stress tolerance. This review highlights how soil structure influences microbiome functions and how agricultural practices impact this relationship. It...
Environmental Research
Microorganisms significantly enhance plant growth and resilience by converting nutrients, inhibiting pathogens, and inducing defense responses.** Despite advances in omics and gene editing for crop improvement, the role of beneficial...
Journal of Applied Microbiology
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are vital for enhancing plant growth and development in the rhizosphere. They support nutrient acquisition, soil improvement, and stress response through various mechanisms, including hormone production...
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 Applied Ecology
In East African drylands, both the quantity and quality of woody vegetation enhance soil health. Increased aboveground biomass boosts soil infiltrability (Kfs), and certain plant traits, like low leaf thickness,...
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...
Nature
The root-to-soil delivery of specialized plant metabolites, which shape the rhizosphere microbiome and thereby affect crop fitness, occurs via root-plant transporters. This study demonstrated that cucurbitacins in cucurbit plants are...
PubMed
A novel chemical communication between Streptomyces rapamycinicus and Aspergillus nidulans requires the bacterium-produced polaramycin B, not physical contact, for orsellinic acid (ORS) production in the fungus. This study shows that...
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...
MDPI
Cover crops and no-till management can enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, offering potential climate change mitigation benefits. This study found that no-till and cover crops significantly increased SOC (%OC)...
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...
MDPI
Beneficial microorganisms, particularly from the Bacillus genus, play a crucial role in enhancing soil and plant health by supplying nutrients, controlling pathogens, and stimulating growth. This review discusses their role...
Frontiers in Plant Science
This study highlights how specific root phenotypes, like Topsoil Foraging and Steep, Cheap and Deep ideotypes, improve plant growth under nutrient and water stress. It emphasizes that root traits influence...
Science of The Total Environment
Exposure to antimony (Sb) reduced biomass and altered Pteris cretica var. nervosa growth, but arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) mitigated these effects, enhancing Sb accumulation and maintaining protein functions. Proteomics identified...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Communities of soil microorganisms (soil microbiomes) play a major role in biogeochemical cycles and support of plant growth. Here we focus primarily on the roles that the soil microbiome plays...
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...
