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Salt and drought stress tolerance with increased biomass in transgenic Pelargonium graveolens through heterologous expression of ACC deaminase gene from Achromobacter xylosoxidans
Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) is a strongly aromatic medicinal plant with increasing market demand. The present study demonstrated that the transgenic P. graveolens exhibited a remarkable increase in plant he...
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Cold stress alleviation using individual and combined inoculation of ACC deaminase producing microbes in Ocimum sanctum
Cold stress in Ocimum sanctum is a major constraint to crop productivity in certain geographical regions. The current study was carried out to examine the effect of consortia of ACC deaminase producing microbes i...
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Eco-friendly Nitrogen Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture
Agriculture meets two great sustainability challenges: first one is ability to provide nutrition to the world population and another one is to improve ecosystem services to maintain clean air, water, and other...
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Open AccessPlant growth promoting rhizobacteria Dietzia natronolimnaea modulates the expression of stress responsive genes providing protection of wheat from salinity stress
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) hold promising future for sustainable agriculture. Here, we demonstrate a carotenoid producing halotolerant PGPR Dietzia natronolimnaea STR1 protecting wheat plants fro...
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ACC-Deaminase-Producing Endophyte Brachybacterium paraconglomeratum Strain SMR20 Ameliorates Chlorophytum Salinity Stress via Altering Phytohormone Generation
The higher content of salt in soil is the key constraint to crop productivity. Induction of stress ethylene production from 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) in the plant system is one of the consequence...
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Halotolerant PGPRs Prevent Major Shifts in Indigenous Microbial Community Structure Under Salinity Stress
The resilience of soil microbial populations and processes to environmental perturbation is of increasing interest as alteration in rhizosphere microbial community dynamics impacts the combined functions of pl...
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Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria alleviate salinity induced negative effects on growth, oil content and physiological status in Mentha arvensis
This study was aimed to investigate the effect of inoculation on three salt-tolerant, plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) STR2 (Bacillus pumilus), STR8 (Halomonas desiderata) and STR36 (E...
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ACC Deaminase-Containing Bacillus subtilis Reduces Stress Ethylene-Induced Damage and Improves Mycorrhizal Colonization and Rhizobial Nodulation in Trigonella foenum-graecum Under Drought Stress
This study was aimed at protecting Trigonella plants by reducing stress ethylene levels through ACC (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid) deaminase-containing Bacillus subtilis (LDR2) and promoting plant growth...
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A natural plant growth promoter calliterpenone from a plant Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl improves the plant growth promoting effects of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs)
Experiments were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of calliterpenone, a natural plant growth promoter from a shrub Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl., in enhancing the growth and yield promoting effects of plant growt...
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Exiguobacterium oxidotolerans, a halotolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, improves yield and content of secondary metabolites in Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell under primary and secondary salt stress
Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri), an integral component of Indian Ayurvedic medicine system, is facing a threat of extinction owing to the depletion of its natural populations. The present study investigates the prospect...
