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 …

How the plant growth-promoting bacterium Azospirillum promotes plant growth—a critical assessment

Y Bashan, LE De-Bashan - Advances in agronomy, 2010 - Elsevier
During the last 35 years of studies of Azospirillum–plant interaction, over 20 proposals were
suggested for the mechanism of action by which Azospirillum spp., the most intensively …

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 …

Mutagenesis—A potential approach for crop improvement

R Roychowdhury, J Tah - Crop improvement: new approaches and …, 2013 - Springer
Global environmental dissociative changes are now in steady state. Its negative impacts
were gradually imposed on a wide range of crops and thus crop improvement was hindered …

Microbiology is the basis of sustainable agriculture: an opinion

IA Tikhonovich, NA Provorov - Annals of Applied Biology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural microbiology is presented as a synthetic research field responsible for
knowledge transfer from general microbiology and microbial ecology to the agricultural …

Azospirillum: A Biofertilizer for Every Crop

S Mehnaz - Plant microbes symbiosis: Applied facets, 2014 - Springer
Azospirillum is known for its nitrogen-fixing and phytohormone production ability. It is one of
very well-studied plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, at lab scale to field. None of its …

Improved Growth and Nutrition of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) Plants in a Low-Fertility Calcareous Soil Treated with Plant Growth–Promoting Rhizobacteria and Fe …

P Abbaszadeh-Dahaji, F Masalehi, A Akhgar - Journal of Soil Science and …, 2020 - Springer
The low availability of micronutrients such as zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) and macronutrients
(phosphorus (P), in particular) in calcareous soils adversely affects plants such as sorghum …

Effect of on-field inoculation of Phaseolus vulgaris with rhizobia on soil bacterial communities

D Trabelsi, A Mengoni, H Ben Ammar… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of inoculation of Phaseolus vulgaris with two
indigenous rhizobia strains on plant growth promotion, nitrogen turnover processes …

Efficiency of seed inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense on agronomic characteristics and yield of wheat

GG Piccinin, AL Braccini, LGM Dan, CA Scapim… - Industrial Crops and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of seed inoculation with Azospirillum
brasilense on the agronomic performance and yield of wheat. The experiment was …

Enrichment of arsenic transforming and resistant heterotrophic bacteria from sediments of two salt lakes in Northern Chile

J Lara, L Escudero González, M Ferrero, G Chong Díaz… - Extremophiles, 2012 - Springer
Microbial populations are involved in the arsenic biogeochemical cycle in catalyzing arsenic
transformations and playing indirect roles. To investigate which ecotypes among the diverse …