Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is a genetically diverse Andean crop that has earned special attention worldwide due to its nutritional and health benefits and its ability to adapt to …
Phytobeneficial microbes, particularly endophytes, such as fungi and bacteria, are concomitant partners of plants throughout its developmental stages, including seed …
C de La Fuente Cantó, M Simonin, E King… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plants forage soil for water and nutrients, whose distribution is patchy and often dynamic. To improve their foraging activities, plants have evolved mechanisms to modify the …
C Sánchez-Cañizares, B Jorrín, PS Poole… - Current Opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•New molecular methods have revealed microbiomes to be key components of plant health.•Plant microbiomes are mainly recruited from soil, but also from seeds and …
M Gopal, A Gupta - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
“No plant is an island too…” Plants, though sessile, have developed a unique strategy to counter biotic and abiotic stresses by symbiotically co-evolving with microorganisms and …
Some microorganisms are adapted to an endophytic mode, living symbiotically with plants through vertical transmission in seeds. The role of plant growth-promoting endophytes has …
OI Omomowo, OO Babalola - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
The conventional means of achieving enhanced agricultural productivity are not ecologically balanced and sustainable. The excessive use of synthetic agrochemicals, declining soil …
Root and rhizosphere microbial communities can affect plant health, but it remains undetermined how plant domestication may influence these bacterial and fungal …
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria represent a promising solution to enhancing agricultural productivity. Here, we screened phosphate solubilizing bacteria from the …