ReviewThe ISME journal2021
Engineering rhizobacteria for sustainable agriculture.
Review in The ISME journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Principles for Rigorous Design and Application of Synthetic Microbial Communities.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Pooled it
- Meta-analysis reveals the effects of microbial inoculants on the biomass and diversity of soil microbial communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Pooled it
- Mechanisms and Research Progress of Phosphate-Solubilizing Microorganisms in Promoting Sustainable Crop Production.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Describing the persistence landscape for introducing microbes into complex communities.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Review
- Engineering rhizobacterial communities for soil and plant health.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2026Review
- Seed-borne bacteria-mediated seedling microbiome assembly: genetic and metabolic mechanisms of salt tolerance.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Temporal dynamics of the tomato rhizosphere microbiome in response to synthetic communities of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The mechanism and application of the selenium hyperaccumulator Cardamine hupingshanensis: status and challenges.Annals of botany · 2026Review
- Harnessing Plant-Microorganism Interactions to Mitigate Biotic and Abiotic Stresses for Sustainable Crops.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Nanomaterials as electrochemical regulators of bacterial biofilms through the modulation of extracellular electron transport and ion channels.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Review
- Bio-Organic Fertilizer withPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Plant microbiome engineering: from inoculation to genome editing.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Fit for purpose: evaluation and evolution of agricultural bioinoculants across production landscapes.ISME communications · 2026Review
- By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer for crops.NPJ sustainable agriculture · 2026Article
- Transcriptome-guided discovery of novel plant-associated genes in a rhizosphere Pseudomonas.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Synthetic bacterium-facilitated colonization of nitrogen-fixing bacteria for remodeling the rhizosphere microbiome and improving plant yield.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience.Nature food · 2025Article
- Optimizing Conditions forPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Soil-dwelling Naegleria enhances plant performance by stimulating beneficial bacterial functions in the rhizosphere.Nature communications · 2025Article
- HMolecular plant pathology · 2025Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Exploitation of plant growth promoting (PGP) rhizobacteria (PGPR) as crop inoculants could propel sustainable intensification of agriculture to feed our rapidly growing population. However, field performance of PGPR is typically inconsistent due to suboptimal rhizosphere colonisation and persistence in foreign soils, promiscuous host-specificity, and in some cases, the existence of undesirable genetic regulation that has evolved to repress PGP traits. While the genetics underlying these problems remain largely unresolved, molecular mechanisms of PGP have been elucidated in rigorous detail. Engineering and subsequent transfer of PGP traits into selected efficacious rhizobacterial isolates or entire bacterial rhizosphere communities now offers a powerful strategy to generate improved PGPR that are tailored for agricultural use. Through harnessing of synthetic plant-to-bacteria signalling, attempts are currently underway to establish exclusive coupling of plant-bacteria interactions in the field, which will be crucial to optimise efficacy and establish biocontainment of engineered PGPR. This review explores the many ecological and biotechnical facets of this research.
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