The influence of the interaction (s) between the medicinal plant Echinacea purpurea (L.)
Moench and its endophytic communities on the production of alkamides is investigated. To …

Maize roots can be colonized by free-living atmospheric nitrogen (N2)-fixing bacteria
(diazotrophs). However, the agronomic potential of non-symbiotic N2-fixation in such an …

Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) modes of action are highly complex and the totality
of mechanisms they are able to use for plant growth or stress amelioration remains …

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can associate and enhance the growth of
important crop grasses. However, in most cases, the molecular mechanisms responsible for …

Endophytes are microorganisms that live inside plants without causing disease. Maize
endophytes collectively encode roughly twenty times as many genes as maize itself, giving …

BACKGROUND Due to the increasing valuation and appreciation of honeydew honey in
many European countries and also to existing contamination among different types of …

BACKGROUND Oat is considered as a moderately salt‐tolerant crop that could be used to
improve saline and alkaline soil. Previous studies have focused on short‐term salt stress …

The use of plant growth‐promoting bacteria as agricultural inoculants of plants should be
encouraged because of their prominent role in biological nitrogen fixation, the increase of …

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a source of proteins for about one billion people
worldwide. In Brazil,'BRS Sublime','BRS Vereda','BRS Esteio', and 'BRS Estilo'cultivars were …

Abstract BACKGROUND A genetically modified (GM) common bean event, namely Embrapa
5.1, was approved for commercialization in Brazil. The present work aimed to use principal …