Alleviative Mechanisms of Rhizospheric Bacteria in the Response to Plant Stress: A Promising Tool in Sustainable Agriculture
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 9572
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Interests: environmental microbiology; wastewater treatment; microbial ecology; correlation networks; mixed microbial culture (MMC)
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Dear Colleagues,
It is commonly recognized that intensive agriculture is leading to more frequent and intense stress situations. Furthermore, the inadequate application of agrochemicals to overcome these stresses has resulted in a vicious circle that accelerated environmental contamination. It is a universally accepted fact that the use of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) as inoculants improve the growth and yield of agricultural crops. Additionally, PGPR are safer and more economic alternatives to agrochemical fertilizers. Therefore, in the present scenario, the use of PGPR is of paramount importance to reduce various anthropogenic agricultural constraints. Despite the importance of PGPR in agriculture, the biochemical mechanisms by which they alleviate the effect of different stresses has not been widely studied.
This Special Issue will focus on the use of PGPR as soil management solutions to cope with different biotic and abiotic stresses. We are open to novel research, reviews, and opinion articles covering all aspects of the responses and mechanisms developed by PGPR to alleviate the detrimental effects of biotic and abiotic stress in crops. Contributions of biochemical and molecular studies on the responses to abiotic stress by PGPR will be an essential part of this Special Issue. Genetic engineering and other biotechnological approaches to improve PGPR stress tolerance are also welcome.
Dr. David Correa-Galeote
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria
- Rhizosphere
- Bacterial inoculants
- Sustainable agriculture
- Crop yield
- Abiotic stress
- Drought
- Salinity
- Nitrogen fixation
- ACC-deaminase
- Siderophores
- Phosphate-solubilisation
- Genetic engineering
- Biotechnology
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