ArticlePlant methods2022
A fast method to evaluate in a combinatorial manner the synergistic effect of different biostimulants for promoting growth or tolerance against abiotic stress.
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- Improving Biocontrol Potential of Antagonistic Yeasts Against Fungal Pathogen in Postharvest Fruits and Vegetables Through Application of Organic Enhancing Agents.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Bio-organic fertilizers reshape rhizosphere bacterial community and enhance crop productivity in reclaimed soil.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- The Biostimulant, Potassium Humate Ameliorates Abiotic Stress inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Fungi That Promote Plant Growth in the Rhizosphere Boost Crop Growth.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Use of Yucca (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Enhancing crop resilience by harnessing the synergistic effects of biostimulants against abiotic stress.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Editorial: Ion homeostasis in plant stress and development, volume II.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
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backgroundAccording to the most popular definition, a biostimulant is any substance or microorganism applied to plants with the aim to enhance nutrition efficiency, abiotic stress tolerance and/or crop quality traits, regardless of its nutrient content. Therefore, a biostimulant can help crops to withstand abiotic stress, while maintaining or even increasing productivity. We have previously designed a sequential system, based on two different model organisms, the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, to evaluate the potential of different natural extracts as biostimulants employing a blind-test strategy.
resultsIn this report, we further expand this concept to evaluate different biostimulants in a combinatorial approach to reveal the potential additive, synergistic or antagonistic effects of different combinations of biostimulants in order to design new formulations with enhanced effects on plant growth or tolerance to abiotic stress. The method is based on yeast assays (growth tests in solid medium, and continuous growth in liquid cultures) and plant assays (mass accumulation in hydroponic culture) to assess effects on early growth.
conclusionsWith this novel approach, we have designed new formulations and quantified the ability to enhance growth and promote biomass accumulation under normal conditions and in the presence of abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity or cold. This method enables a fast screen of many different products in a combinatorial manner, in order to design novel formulations of natural extracts with biostimulant potential.
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