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ReviewPlant biotechnology journal2014

Understanding and engineering beneficial plant-microbe interactions: plant growth promotion in energy crops.

Kerrie Farrar, David Bryant, Naomi Cope-Selby

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Review in Plant biotechnology journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Control of root-knot nematode disease inFrontiers in plant science · 2026
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  8. Endophytic fungi from Himalayan silver birch as potential source of plant growth enhancement and secondary metabolite production.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024
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  15. The Microbial Connection to Sustainable Agriculture.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kerrie FarrarInstitute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK.
David Bryant
Naomi Cope-Selby

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E024319/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E024319/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant production systems globally must be optimized to produce stable high yields from limited land under changing and variable climates. Demands for food, animal feed, and feedstocks for bioenergy and biorefining applications, are increasing with population growth, urbanization and affluence. Low-input, sustainable, alternatives to petrochemical-derived fertilizers and pesticides are required to reduce input costs and maintain or increase yields, with potential biological solutions having an important role to play. In contrast to crops that have been bred for food, many bioenergy crops are largely undomesticated, and so there is an opportunity to harness beneficial plant-microbe relationships which may have been inadvertently lost through intensive crop breeding. Plant-microbe interactions span a wide range of relationships in which one or both of the organisms may have a beneficial, neutral or negative effect on the other partner. A relatively small number of beneficial plant-microbe interactions are well understood and already exploited; however, others remain understudied and represent an untapped reservoir for optimizing plant production. There may be near-term applications for bacterial strains as microbial biopesticides and biofertilizers to increase biomass yield from energy crops grown on land unsuitable for food production. Longer term aims involve the design of synthetic genetic circuits within and between the host and microbes to optimize plant production. A highly exciting prospect is that endosymbionts comprise a unique resource of reduced complexity microbial genomes with adaptive traits of great interest for a wide variety of applications.

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BiofuelsGenetic EngineeringPlant DevelopmentSymbiosisCrops, AgriculturalPlantsBiofuelsbacterial endophytebiofertilizationLEANOMEplant-microbe signallingsustainable agriculturesymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID25431199
PMCPMC4265282

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