Food security has become a major concern worldwide in recent years due to ever increasing
population. Providing food for the growing billions without disturbing environmental balance …

Microbiological tools, biofertilizers, and biocontrol agents, which are bacteria and fungi
capable of providing beneficial outcomes in crop plant growth and health, have been …

Under natural conditions, plants are always associated with a well-orchestrated community
of microbes—the phytomicrobiome. The nature and degree of microbial effect on the plant …

The study of plant-endophyte interactions is complex and difficult to decipher. In part, this is
because they are dynamic and diverse; these interactions can be mutualistic …

One of the major challenges of agriculture currently is to obtain higher crop yield.
Environmental conditions, cultivar quality, and plant diseases greatly affect plant …

Abstract N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL)-based bacterial communication through quorum
sensing (QS) is one of the main causes of biofouling. Although quorum quenching (QQ) has …

Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) are a group of beneficial microorganisms that
include 60 bacterial genera, such as Bacillus, Pseudomonas, and Burkholderia, which …

Bacillus sp. DU-106, a newly isolated member of Bacillus cereus group, exhibits the
predominant ability to produce L-lactic acid. The probiotic potency of test strain revealed its …

BACKGROUND Root‐knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are soilborne pathogens that can
cause great damage to and economic loss of crops globally. Owing to the high toxicity of …

Today, agriculture faces many challenges related to the effects of climate change such as
heat stress, drought, excess humidity, and their contribution to the attack of new variants of …