The breaking silence between the plant roots and microorganisms in the rhizosphere affects
plant growth and physiology by impacting biochemical, molecular, nutritional, and edaphic …

Growing environmental concerns are potentially narrowing global yield capacity of
agricultural systems. Climate change is the most significant problem the world is currently …

FAPROTAX is a promising tool for predicting ecological relevant functions of bacterial and
archaeal taxa derived from 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. The database was initially …

Potassium (K) is considered as an essential nutrient and a major constituent within all living
cells. Naturally, soils contain K in larger amounts than any other nutrients; however most of …

Intensive agricultural practices and cultivation of exhaustive crops has deteriorated soil
fertility and its quality in agroecosystems. According to an estimate, such practices will …

The established practices of intensive agriculture, combined with inadequate soil Κ
replenishment by conventional inorganic fertilization, results in a negative environmental …

The growing interest in low-input agriculture in recent years has focused the use of microbial
biofertilizers to improve plant growth and yield through a better mobilization of indigenous …

Plant beneficial rhizospheric microorganisms (PBRMs) are rhizospheric microbes that are
able to colonize rhizosphere and to improve plant growth, development and nutrient use …

Until recently, potassium (K) has not received considerable attention because of the general
belief that soils contain ample amounts of this element. In addition, low rates of K fertilizer …

The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which
solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield. K …