Rhizosphere Microorganisms and Beneficial Interactions with Plants
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2022) | Viewed by 2189
Special Issue Editors
Interests: endophytic bacteria; rhizobia; bacterial diversity; plant–microbe interactions; bacterial plant probiotics; STEM education
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Interests: bacterial genomics; functional microbiota; rhizosphere microbiota; impact of plant domestication on microbiota; plant-disease-suppressive soils
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Interests: host-microbe interactions; bioinformatics; microbiology; multi-OMICs; microbialecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since Beijerick in 1888 obtained the first pure culture of a bacterium from a legume root nodule, knowledge about the microbial world has expanded in an unthinkable way. It was discovered that plants release a considerable amount of photosynthate from their roots, modifying the physical-chemical parameters of the surrounding environment: the rhizosphere. Many soil microorganisms are attracted by root exudates and colonize the rhizosphere, influencing the development of the host plant itself, and other microorganisms are incorporated into the plant to an endophytic lifestyle forming the so-called plant microbiome, which has an essential role in the plant health and homeostasis. Some bacteria and fungi cooperate with the plant by various mechanisms, improve the mineral nutrition of the plant, synthesize phytohormones that influence the phenotypes of the plant or stimulate the ISR or the control of pathogens (competition-inhibition). These beneficial microorganisms of the rhizosphere belong to many different genera and species.
With this Special Issue of Agronomy, we seek to present recent advances in the study of these interactions, encompassing both genomic analyses of phytobeneficial microorganisms and meta-analyses that attempt to decipher the functioning of the phytobeneficial microbiome in the context of the impacts related to agricultural practices.
Dr. Martha Helena Ramírez-Bahena
Dr. Daniel Muller
Dr. Zaki Saati-Santamaría
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rhizosphere
- microorganisms
- biofertilizers
- biocontrol
- microbe–host interactions
- genomes
- microbial communities
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