Sustainable agriculture requires the recruitment of bacterial agents to control diverse plant
diseases such as bacterial endophytes. Bacterial endophytes colonize and inhabit internal …

Conservation agriculture (CA) is based on minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover,
and crop rotation; it is promoted as a sustainable alternative to systems involving …

Although the importance of plant‐associated microorganisms for plant growth and health
was getting more recognition recently, the role of seed‐associated microorganisms, and …

Phytobeneficial microbes, particularly endophytes, such as fungi and bacteria, are
concomitant partners of plants throughout its developmental stages, including seed …

Our objective is to provide an optimistic strategy for reversing soil degradation by increasing
public and private research efforts to understand the role of soil biology, particularly …

Herbicides are the foundation of weed control in commercial crop-production systems.
However, herbicide-resistant (HR) weed populations are evolving rapidly as a natural …

Seed persistence is the survival of seeds in the environment once they have reached
maturity. Seed persistence allows a species, population or genotype to survive long after the …

Endophytes are non-pathogenic microbes living inside plants. We asked whether
endophytic species were conserved in the agriculturally important plant genus Zea as it …

Endophytes as a ubiquitous associate of the plant are considered as a promising candidate
for sustainable agriculture. These organisms play a pivotal role in the regulation of the …

Exponential upsurge in the global population growth rate claims sustainable means to fulfill
their food requirements. Therefore, the collaboration of beneficial microorganisms with their …