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Consortium of Endophytic Bacillus australimaris CK11 and Staphylococcus epidermidis CK9 from Commiphora gileadensis Mediates Tomato Resilience to Combined Salinity, Heat, and Drought Stresses
Climate change poses a critical threat to global agriculture. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) present a sustainable approach to increase climate resilience. The study focused on isolating and screening ...
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Enhanced growth and stress tolerance in Barley (Hordeum vulgare) through biopriming with Aspergillus niger CSR3: a promising approach for sustainable agriculture in saline environments
Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is the fourth largest cereal crop in the world, with considerable nutritional value. Recently more studies on the toleration of barley to salt stress have been published, indicating an in...
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Comparative Analysis of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Mitochondrial Genomics
Date is a major crop of arid regions, domesticated ~7000 years ago in the Near and Middle East. With the advancement technology, data of date palm have increased rapidly and yielded new insights into t...
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Open AccessSilicon-induced thermotolerance in Solanum lycopersicum L. via activation of antioxidant system, heat shock proteins, and endogenous phytohormones
Abiotic stresses (e.g., heat or limited water and nutrient availability) limit crop production worldwide. With the progression of climate change, the severity and variation of these stresses are expected to in...
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Open AccessGenomic and evolutionary aspects of chloroplast tRNA in monocot plants
Chloroplasts are one of the most indispensable organelles that make life forms on the earth possible by their capacity to photosynthesize. These organelles possess a circular genome with a number of coding gen...
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Open AccessComplete genome sequencing and analysis of endophytic Sphingomonas sp. LK11 and its potential in plant growth
Our study aimed to elucidate the plant growth-promoting characteristics and the structure and composition of Sphingomonas sp. LK11 genome using the single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing technology of Pacifi...
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Regulation of endogenous phytohormones and essential metabolites in frankincense-producing Boswellia sacra under wounding stress
Boswellia sacra is an economically and ecologically important frankincense-producing tree, which is wounded to extract the aromatic resin. However, the underlying physiological mechanisms following this wounding ...
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Therapeutic applications of bacterial pigments: a review of current status and future opportunities
Non-toxicity, biodegradability and non-carcinogenicity of the natural pigments, dyes and colorants make them an attractive source for human use. Bacterial pigments are colored metabolites secreted by bacteria ...
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Endophytic Microbes: A Resource for Producing Extracellular Enzymes
Endophytes (fungi and bacteria) have been known to live asymptomatically with plants throughout the different growth and developmental stages. Endophytic microbes provide an additional resource to the plant du...
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Fungal endophyte Penicillium janthinellum LK5 can reduce cadmium toxicity in Solanum lycopersicum (Sitiens and Rhe)
We investigated the role of gibberellins-producing endophyte Penicillium janthinellum LK5 associated with Solanum lycopersicum (host), abscisic acid (ABA)-deficient tomato mutant Sitiens and its wild-type Rheinla...