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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2021

Current Methods, Common Practices, and Perspectives in Tracking and Monitoring Bioinoculants in Soil.

Andrea Manfredini, Eligio Malusà, Corrado Costa, Federico Pallottino, Stefano Mocali, Flavia Pinzari, Loredana Canfora

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Andrea ManfrediniCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Rome, Italy.
Eligio MalusàNational Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice, Poland.
Corrado CostaCouncil for Agricultural Research and Analysis of the Agricultural Economy, Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing, Monterotondo, Italy.
Federico PallottinoCouncil for Agricultural Research and Analysis of the Agricultural Economy, Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing, Monterotondo, Italy.
Stefano MocaliCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Rome, Italy.
Flavia PinzariInstitute for Biological Systems, Council of National Research of Italy (CNR), Rome, Italy.
Loredana CanforaCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microorganisms promised to lead the bio-based revolution for a more sustainable agriculture. Beneficial microorganisms could be a valid alternative to the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. However, the increasing use of microbial inoculants is also raising several questions about their efficacy and their effects on the autochthonous soil microorganisms. There are two major issues on the application of bioinoculants to soil: (i) their detection in soil, and the analysis of their persistence and fate; (ii) the monitoring of the impact of the introduced bioinoculant on native soil microbial communities. This review explores the strategies and methods that can be applied to the detection of microbial inoculants and to soil monitoring. The discussion includes a comprehensive critical assessment of the available tools, based on morpho-phenological, molecular, and microscopic analyses. The prospects for future development of protocols for regulatory or commercial purposes are also discussed, underlining the need for a multi-method (polyphasic) approach to ensure the necessary level of discrimination required to track and monitor bioinoculants in soil.

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bacteriabiofertilisersbiopesticidesdetectionfungimicrobial inoculantsmicroorganismssoil

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PMID34531836
PMCPMC8438429

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