ReviewBMC biology2019
Are we there yet? The long walk towards the development of efficient symbiotic associations between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and non-leguminous crops.
Review in BMC biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
76 citing papers in PubMed, 230 citations in OpenAlex.
- Convergence in Coevolved Systems: A Two-Axis Filter for Biomimetic Transferability.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Root Plasticity and Elemental Stoichiometry Are Associated with Competitive Shifts BetweenPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Wheat in 2025: challenges for sustainable production and consumption.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Review
- The Medicago SPX1/3-PHR2 network relays phosphate signaling to orchestrate root nodulation-dependent nitrogen acquisition by controlling flavonoid biosynthesis.Plant communications · 2026Article
- Nitrogen Management in Crop-Soil-Environment Systems: Pathways Toward Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Agriculture.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Inoculation with indigenous nitrogen-fixers enhances seedling growth and nutrient uptake in a greenhouse bioassay.PloS one · 2026Article
- Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture.Progress in molecular and subcellular biology · 2026Review
- Rhizobia mitigates autotoxicity inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Engineered bacteria as an orally administered anti-viral treatment and immunization system.Gut microbes · 2025Article
- HMolecular plant pathology · 2025Article
- Enhancing Biological Nitrogen Fixation Through Diverse Pasture Swards.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Can circularity support net-zero agriculture: an exploratory case.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2025Article
- The role of endophytic bacteria in enhancing plant growth and health for sustainable agriculture.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2025Review
- Enacting partner specificity in legume-rhizobia symbioses.aBIOTECH · 2025Review
- Asymbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Phyllosphere of Urban Green Spaces.Current microbiology · 2025Article
- Mucilage produced by aerial roots hosts diazotrophs that provide nitrogen in Sorghum bicolor.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- The interplay of carbon and nitrogen cycling driven by watershed microorganisms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Nitrogen fixation rates and aerial root production among maize landraces.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Effects of foliar-sprayed bio-fertilizer with N-fixingFrontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Graphene oxide promotes soybean growth by reshaping the rhizosphere microbiome and enhancing soil fertility.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
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 produced from atmospheric nitrogen and natural gas, threatening the sustainability of global food production and degrading the environment. There is a need for alternative means of bringing nitrogen to crops, and taking greater advantage of biological nitrogen fixation seems a logical option. Legumes are used in most cropping systems around the world because of the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with rhizobia. However, the world's three major cereal crops-rice, wheat, and maize-do not associate with rhizobia. In this review, we will survey how genetic approaches in rhizobia and their legume hosts allowed tremendous progress in understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling root nodule symbioses, and how this knowledge paves the way for engineering such associations in non-legume crops. We will also discuss challenges in bringing these systems into the field and how they can be surmounted by interdisciplinary collaborations between synthetic biologists, microbiologists, plant biologists, breeders, agronomists, and policymakers.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.