ArticleScientific reports2018
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria promote plant size inequality.
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- Enhancing multi-season wheat yield through plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria using consortium and individual isolate applications.Folia microbiologica · 2025Article
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- The IAA-Producing RhizobacteriumPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Rooting for success: Evolutionary enhancement of Bacillus for superior plant colonization.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Review
- Influence of Soil Phosphate on Rhizobacterial Performance in Affecting Wheat Yield.Current microbiology · 2024Article
- The role of social attraction and social avoidance in shaping modular networks.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Mapping Genetic Variation in Arabidopsis in Response to Plant Growth-Promoting BacteriumMicroorganisms · 2023Article
- A Potential Biofertilizer-Siderophilic Bacteria Isolated From the Rhizosphere ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Fluorescent Pseudomonas -FAP2 and Bacillus licheniformis interact positively in biofilm mode enhancing plant growth and photosynthetic attributes.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
The uniformity of crop yield is extremely important for consumers and of as much relevance to the grower as overall yield. However, size inequality within a plant population is rarely measured and has never before been considered in relation to the use of beneficial microbes for yield enhancement. For the first time, we show that addition of soil bacteria to calabrese plants significantly increased size inequality. These effects were usually more apparent in above-ground biomass. This was caused by some (but not all) plants growing very large when inoculated with bacteria, while control plants were mostly small. We suggest that the main reason is the incompatibility of the inoculated bacteria with those already present in the rhizosphere. In some cases the inoculum matched the indigenous community, providing a benefit to plant growth, while often it did not and plants remained relatively small. We conclude that analyses of size inequality should be an integral part of experiments using microbial soil amendments. These analyses can help to inform the production of more effective microbial products and to ensure that the integration of beneficial microbes into sustainable production systems does not impair uniformity in yield.
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