Biostimulant and Beyond: Bacillus spp., the Important Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)-Based Biostimulant for Sustainable Agriculture

Earth Systems and Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 2, 2025

Language: Английский

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Crop Diversification for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management and Food Security

Global Challenges, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9(2)

Published: Jan. 12, 2025

Agriculture faces growing challenges from climate change, pest pressures, and market instability. Crop diversification offers a sustainable strategy to enhance resilience reduce the risks of monoculture. This review examines crop as response these challenges, with focus on its applications in agriculture, risk management, food security. Strategies such spatial, temporal, genetic, intercropping soil health, improve boost variability. The highlights key principles, including ecological resilience, distribution, resource optimization. By adopting diverse crops, farmers can mitigate degradation, outbreaks, stabilize incomes. Successful case studies various regions, integrated rice-fish farming agroforestry, demonstrate how productivity sustainability. However, remain, knowledge gaps, access issues, policy limitations. concludes recommendations for future research interventions, stressing need tailored strategies, better support systems, further exploration innovative practices. overview underscores potential build resilient, agricultural systems while addressing global security concerns.

Language: Английский

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Microbiome Engineering for Sustainable Rice Production: Strategies for Biofertilization, Stress Tolerance, and Climate Resilience

Microorganisms, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 233 - 233

Published: Jan. 22, 2025

The plant microbiome, found in the rhizosphere, phyllosphere, and endosphere, is essential for nutrient acquisition, stress tolerance, overall health of plants. This review aims to update our knowledge critically discuss diversity functional roles rice as well microbiome engineering strategies enhance biofertilization resilience. Rice hosts various microorganisms that affect cycling, growth promotion, resistance stresses. Microorganisms carry out these functions through nitrogen fixation, phytohormone metabolite production, enhanced solubilization uptake, regulation host gene expression. Recent research on molecular biology has elucidated complex interactions within microbiomes signalling mechanisms establish beneficial microbial communities, which are crucial sustainable production environmental health. Crucial factors successful commercialization agents include soil properties, practical field conditions, genotype. Advances engineering, from traditional inoculants synthetic biology, optimize availability resilience abiotic stresses like drought. Climate change intensifies challenges, but innovations microbiome-shaping genes (M genes) offer promising solutions crop also discusses agronomic implications emphasizing need further exploration M breeding disease traits. Ultimately, we provide an current findings rice, highlighting pathways productivity sustainably while minimizing impacts.

Language: Английский

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Advancing Agriculture: Harnessing Smart Nanoparticles for Precision Fertilization

BioNanoScience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 3846 - 3863

Published: Aug. 17, 2024

Language: Английский

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Comparative effects of biocontrol agent and pathogen on Nicotiana tabacum : insights into fungal-plant interactions

Plant Signaling & Behavior, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: Jan. 16, 2025

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) black shank disease, caused by Phytophthora nicotianae, is a significant threat to tobacco crops, leading severe economic losses. Prolonged use of agrochemicals control this disease has prompted the exploration eco-friendly biological strategies. This study investigated effects Trichoderma harzianum, biocontrol agent, on N. tabacum in comparison P. focusing growth, biomass, root morphology and anatomy, hormonal changes, osmotic regulation. T. harzianum significantly enhanced plant biomass accumulation, system development, physiological attributes such as photosynthetic pigment levels antioxidant enzyme activity. In contrast, nicotianae negatively impacted these parameters, inhibiting growth function. Notably, increased proline content induced resistance mechanisms, mitigating stress promoting overall health. These findings highlight potential sustainable solution for managing while improving crop productivity.

Language: Английский

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Distinct seasonal and annual variability of prokaryotes, fungi and protists in cropland soil under different tillage systems and soil texture

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 109732 - 109732

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Profiling of rhizosphere-associated microbial communities in North Alabama soils infested with varied levels of reniform nematodes

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16

Published: March 7, 2025

Introduction Plant roots, nematodes, and soil microorganisms have a complex interaction in the rhizosphere by exchanging or communicating through biomolecules chemicals signals. Some rhizospheric (including endophytic) microbes process such compounds via biogeochemical cycles to improve fertility, promote plant growth development, impart stress tolerance plants. can affect negatively on parasitic nematodes (PPNs) thus hindering ability of parasitizing roots. Next-generation sequencing is one most widely used cost-effective ways determining composition diversity microbiomes environmental samples. Methods This study employed amplicon (Illumina/NextSeq) 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) for bacteria Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS2) region fungi profile microbiome cotton grown North Alabama. We isolated DNA (ZymoBIOMICS) from samples triplicates four representative locations Based level Reniform Nematode (RN) Infestation, these were classified as Group A-RN Not-Detected (ND), B-RN Low Infestation (LI), C-RN Medium (MI), D-RN High (HI) determined using sieving method microscopic examination. Results discussion Our analyses identified 47,893 bacterial 3,409 fungal Amplicon Sequence Variants (ASVs) across all groups. Among ASVs, 12,758, 10,709, 12,153, 11,360 unique ASVs Groups A, B, C, D, respectively. While 663, 887, 480, 326 Also, five abundant genera Gaiella , Conexibacter Bacillus Blastococcus Streptomyces . Moreover, belonging Fusarium, Aspergillus, Gibberella, Cladosporium, Lactera identified. The tight clustering nodes Actinobacteria Acidobacteria Proteobacteria shows they are highly similar often found together. On other hand, close association Ascomycota Basidiomycota suggesting that different ecological roles but occupy niches contribute functions within microbial community. communities this had role nutrient recycling, health, resistance some pests including cycles. findings will aid broadening our understanding how interact with crops rhizosphere, influencing pest management.

Language: Английский

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Halotolerant Microorganism-Based Soil Conditioner Application Improved the Soil Properties, Yield, Quality and Starch Characteristics of Hybrid Rice under Higher Saline Conditions

Plants, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(16), P. 2325 - 2325

Published: Aug. 21, 2024

Soil salinity represents a significant factor affecting agricultural productivity and crop quality. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of soil conditioner (SC) comprising halotolerant microorganisms on fertility, yield, rice quality, physicochemical structural properties starch in hybrid under saline conditions. experimental treatments were composed two high-quality varieties, i.e., ‘Y Liangyou 957’ (YLY957) Jing 534 (JLY534), amendment treatments, application SC at control levels 2250 kg hm−2, or ‘CK SC’, respectively. subjected mixture fresh sea water (EC 11 dS/m). results demonstrated that significantly enhanced yield salt stress conditions owing an increase number grains per panicle. Furthermore, found be effective improving organic matter nutrient content. resulted improvement antioxidant defense, higher leaf SPAD values, greater biomass, as well translocation photo-assimilates heading stage. not only improved milling appearance quality but also taste value by increasing amylose reducing protein decreased indentations surfaces granules cracks edges granules. varieties exhibited excellent pasting properties, characterized reduced proportions amylopectin short chains lower gelatinization temperature enthalpy gelatinization. Overall, these findings serve reinforce efficacy valuable tool improve sustainability with grain

Language: Английский

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Loss of microbial functional diversity following Spartina alterniflora invasion reduces the potential of carbon sequestration and nitrogen removal in mangrove sediments—from a gene perspective

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 365, P. 121569 - 121569

Published: June 24, 2024

Language: Английский

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Microbial Ecosystems as Guardians of Food Security and Water Resources in the Era of Climate Change

Water Air & Soil Pollution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 235(11)

Published: Oct. 10, 2024

Language: Английский

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