Exploiting biological nitrogen fixation: a route towards a sustainable agriculture

A Soumare, AG Diedhiou, M Thuita, M Hafidi… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
For all living organisms, nitrogen is an essential element, while being the most limiting in
ecosystems and for crop production. Despite the significant contribution of synthetic …

Soil microbial resources for improving fertilizers efficiency in an integrated plant nutrient management system

A Bargaz, K Lyamlouli, M Chtouki, Y Zeroual… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tomorrow's agriculture, challenged by increasing global demand for food, scarcity of arable
lands, and resources alongside multiple environment pressures, needs to be managed …

Current progress in nitrogen fixing plants and microbiome research

K Mahmud, S Makaju, R Ibrahim, A Missaoui - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
In agroecosystems, nitrogen is one of the major nutrients limiting plant growth. To meet the
increased nitrogen demand in agriculture, synthetic fertilizers have been used extensively in …

Biological nitrogen fixation in cereal crops: Progress, strategies, and perspectives

K Guo, J Yang, N Yu, L Luo, E Wang - Plant Communications, 2023 - cell.com
Nitrogen is abundant in the atmosphere but is generally the most limiting nutrient for plants.
The inability of many crop plants, such as cereals, to directly utilize freely available …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota

A Van Deynze, P Zamora, PM Delaux, C Heitmann… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Plants are associated with a complex microbiota that contributes to nutrient acquisition, plant
growth, and plant defense. Nitrogen-fixing microbial associations are efficient and well …

How plant root exudates shape the nitrogen cycle

D Coskun, DT Britto, W Shi, HJ Kronzucker - Trends in Plant Science, 2017 - cell.com
Although the global nitrogen (N) cycle is largely driven by soil microbes, plant root exudates
can profoundly modify soil microbial communities and influence their N transformations. A …

Everything you must know about Azospirillum and its impact on agriculture and beyond

F Cassán, A Coniglio, G López, R Molina… - Biology and Fertility of …, 2020 - Springer
Azospirillum is one of the most studied plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB); it
represents a common model for plant-bacterial interactions. While Azospirillum brasilense is …

Beneficial plant-microbes interactions: biodiversity of microbes from diverse extreme environments and its impact for crop improvement

P Verma, AN Yadav, V Kumar, DP Singh… - … -microbe interactions in …, 2017 - Springer
Microbes are capable of colonizing the rhizosphere and phyllosphere as well as living
inside the plant tissues as endophytes. The microbiomes associated with the crops have the …

Halotolerant rhizobacteria promote growth and enhance salinity tolerance in peanut

S Sharma, J Kulkarni, B Jha - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Use of Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) is a promising strategy to improve the
crop production under optimal or sub-optimal conditions. In the present study, five …

Drought-tolerant phosphorus-solubilizing microbes: biodiversity and biotechnological applications for alleviation of drought stress in plants

D Kour, KL Rana, AN Yadav, N Yadav, V Kumar… - Plant growth promoting …, 2019 - Springer
Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses accepted as the main constraint for loss of the
crop yield worldwide. Further, problems are created by nutrient limitations particularly low …