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ReviewCurrent genomics2020

Insights on Engineered Microbes in Sustainable Agriculture: Biotechnological Developments and Future Prospects.

Surya Sudheer, Renu Geetha Bai, Zeba Usmani, Minaxi Sharma

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Review in Current genomics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture.Progress in molecular and subcellular biology · 2026
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  12. Exploring the plant growth promoting attributes of pteridophyte-associated microbiome for agricultural sustainability.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2025
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  13. Genomic and phenotypic profiling of anFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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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

4 authors.

Surya Sudheer1Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu, Estonia; 2School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 29, Tallinn10120, Estonia; 3Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn12612, Estonia; 4Department of Food Technology, ACA, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, 173001, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Renu Geetha Bai1Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu, Estonia; 2School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 29, Tallinn10120, Estonia; 3Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn12612, Estonia; 4Department of Food Technology, ACA, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, 173001, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Zeba Usmani1Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu, Estonia; 2School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 29, Tallinn10120, Estonia; 3Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn12612, Estonia; 4Department of Food Technology, ACA, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, 173001, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Minaxi Sharma1Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu, Estonia; 2School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 29, Tallinn10120, Estonia; 3Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn12612, Estonia; 4Department of Food Technology, ACA, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, 173001, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEnhanced agricultural production is essential for increasing demand of the growing world population. At the same time, to combat the adverse effects caused by conventional agriculture practices to the environment along with the impact on human health and food security, a sustainable and healthy agricultural production needs to be practiced using beneficial microorganisms for enhanced yield. It is quite challenging because these microorganisms have rich biosynthetic repositories to produce biomolecules of interest; however, the intensive research in allied sectors and emerging genetic tools for improved microbial consortia are accepting new approaches that are helpful to farmers and agriculturists to meet the ever-increasing demand of sustainable food production. An important advancement is improved strain development

conclusionIn this review, we discuss the beneficial effects of engineered microorganisms through integrated sustainable agriculture production practices to improve the soil microbial health in order to increase crop productivity.

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genetic engineeringinoculantsmicrobiomemolecular toolsPlant-microbe interactionssustainable agriculture

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PMID33093796
PMCPMC7536804

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