More than one hundred years have passed since the development of the first microbial
inoculant for plants. Nowadays, the use of microbial inoculants in agriculture is spread …

Nitrogen is an essential element of life, and nitrogen availability often limits crop yields.
Since the Green Revolution, massive amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers have been …

Plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere are the determinants of plant health,
productivity and soil fertility. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) are bacteria that can …

The development of cultivars with an improved nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) together with
the application of plant growth-promoting bacteria is considered one of the main strategies …

The utilization of inoculants containing Azospirillum is becoming more popular due to
increasing reports of expressive gains in grain yields. However, incompatibility with …

For decades, researchers around the world search for strategies aiming at higher
sustainability in agriculture. The microbial inoculants or biofertilizers are biotechnological …

Due to the increase in both human population growth and environmental pressure, it is
necessary to raise agricultural productivity without enhancing environmental footprint. Within …

Background Microbial inoculants are an alternative method of increasing crop productivity
that can reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, which is one of the more controversial …

Maize (Zea mays L.) is a major cereal crop worldwide and demands N fertilizers, which can
be replaced partially by plant growth‐promoting bacteria. In Brazil, inoculants carrying …

The inoculation of maize with the plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) Azospirillum
brasilense Ab-V5 and Ab-V6 strains has impressively increased in Brazil in the last decade …