ReviewMicroorganisms2021
Molecular Biology in the Improvement of Biological Nitrogen Fixation by Rhizobia and Extending the Scope to Cereals.
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- Rhizobial variation, more than plant variation, mediates plant symbiotic and fitness responses to herbicide stress.Ecology · 2024Article
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- Unveiling the regulatory mechanism of poly-γ-glutamic acid on soil characteristics under drought stress through integrated metagenomics and metabolomics analysis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Diazotrophic Azotobacter salinestris YRNF3: a probable calcite-solubilizing bio-agent for improving the calcareous soil properties.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Marker trait association for biological nitrogen fixation traits in an interspecific cross of chickpea (Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2023Article
- Tomato Plant Microbiota under Conventional and Organic Fertilization Regimes in a Soilless Culture System.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- The Microbial Connection to Sustainable Agriculture.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Evaluation of Legume-Rhizobial Symbiotic Interactions Beyond Nitrogen Fixation That Help the Host Survival and Diversification in Hostile Environments.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Biodiversity and Functional Attributes of Rhizospheric Microbiomes: Potential Tools for Sustainable Agriculture.Current microbiology · 2023Review
- High-throughput genetic engineering of nonmodel and undomesticated bacteria via iterative site-specific genome integration.Science advances · 2023Article
- Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades.Agronomy for sustainable development · 2023Article
- Microbe Related Chemical Signalling and Its Application in Agriculture.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- A Review on the Role of Endophytes and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in Mitigating Heat Stress in Plants.Microorganisms · 2022Review
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- Future Outlook of Transferring Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) to Cereals and Challenges to Retard Achieving this Dream.Current microbiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
The contribution of biological nitrogen fixation to the total N requirement of food and feed crops diminished in importance with the advent of synthetic N fertilizers, which fueled the "green revolution". Despite being environmentally unfriendly, the synthetic versions gained prominence primarily due to their low cost, and the fact that most important staple crops never evolved symbiotic associations with bacteria. In the recent past, advances in our knowledge of symbiosis and nitrogen fixation and the development and application of recombinant DNA technology have created opportunities that could help increase the share of symbiotically-driven nitrogen in global consumption. With the availability of molecular biology tools, rapid improvements in symbiotic characteristics of rhizobial strains became possible. Further, the technology allowed probing the possibility of establishing a symbiotic dialogue between rhizobia and cereals. Because the evolutionary process did not forge a symbiotic relationship with the latter, the potential of molecular manipulations has been tested to incorporate a functional mechanism of nitrogen reduction independent of microbes. In this review, we discuss various strategies applied to improve rhizobial strains for higher nitrogen fixation efficiency, more competitiveness and enhanced fitness under unfavorable environments. The challenges and progress made towards nitrogen self-sufficiency of cereals are also reviewed. An approach to integrate the genetically modified elite rhizobia strains in crop production systems is highlighted.
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