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Endophytic Microbes from Diverse Wheat Genotypes and Their Potential Biotechnological Applications in Plant Growth Promotion and Nutrient Uptake
Endophytic microbes residing inside the tissues of plants play a significant role to enhance the growth and health of plants by different plant growth-promoting mechanisms. In the present investigation, N2-fixing...
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Alleviation of Drought Stress and Plant Growth Promotion by Pseudomonas libanensis EU-LWNA-33, a Drought-Adaptive Phosphorus-Solubilizing Bacterium
Drought is a very common abiotic stress worldwide in arid and semiarid areas. It decreases the growth and yield of the crops. Due to drought stress, there is insufficient intake of the nutrients, the low rate ...
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Endophytic microbes: biodiversity, plant growth-promoting mechanisms and potential applications for agricultural sustainability
Endophytic microbes are known to live asymptomatically inside their host throughout different stages of their life cycle and play crucial roles in the growth, development, fitness, and diversification of plant...
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Amelioration of drought stress in Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) by P-solubilizing drought-tolerant microbes with multifarious plant growth promoting attributes
Drought is the most limiting factors affecting plant development. It severely affects the crops and leads to serious reductions in yield. There are certain nutrients which also act as limiting factor for plant...
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Genetic Diversity of Methylotrophic Yeast and Their Impact on Environments
Prokaryotic methylotrophic bacteria are able to consume a number of C1-carbon compounds such as methane, methylamine and methanol, whereas only methanol can be consumed by eukaryotic methylotrophic bacteria as...
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Technologies for Biofuel Production: Current Development, Challenges, and Future Prospects
The global energy demand is increasing day by day, with which substantial risk to the environment is also increasing. The consumption of the fuel, as well as the demand, is expected to grow rapidly side by sid...
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Endophytic Fungi: Biodiversity, Ecological Significance, and Potential Industrial Applications
Endophytic fungi are abundant and have been reported from all tissues such as roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits. In recent years, research into the beneficial use of endophytic fungi has increased worl...
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Trichoderma: Biodiversity, Ecological Significances, and Industrial Applications
The genus Trichoderma is ubiquitous in the environment, particularly in soils. Trichoderma species could be readily isolated from soil by all available conventional methods, largely because they grow rapidly and ...
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Biodiversity of Endophytic Fungi from Diverse Niches and Their Biotechnological Applications
Microbes colonizing the inner part of plants, viz., root, stem, or seeds, are referred to as endophytes. Diverse groups of microbes (archaea, bacteria, and eukarya) have been reported as niche-specific endophy...
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Fungal Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Resources: Current Scenario and Future Prospects
Heavy metal (Pb, Cd, Cr, Ni, As, Se, etc.) contaminations in fertile soils and fresh water are one of the worldwide growing issues along with the modernization of the life style. Contamination in natural resou...
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Rhizospheric Microbiomes: Biodiversity, Mechanisms of Plant Growth Promotion, and Biotechnological Applications for Sustainable Agriculture
Soil consists of diverse microscopic life forms such as actinomycetes, algae, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and protozoans. But, the rhizospheric region is the most widely colonized regions of the soil due to th...
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Drought-Tolerant Phosphorus-Solubilizing Microbes: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Applications for Alleviation of Drought Stress in Plants
Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses accepted as the main constraint for loss of the crop yield worldwide. Further, problems are created by nutrient limitations particularly low phosphorus (P). Soils t...
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Agriculturally and Industrially Important Fungi: Current Developments and Potential Biotechnological Applications
With the expanding population, the environment is changing greatly, and agriculture is one of the most exposed sectors to these changes and faces a number of challenges like pollution, pathogenic attack, salin...
