Potential of Bacterial Endophytes as Crop Growth Promoting Factors
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: endophytic bacteria; bacterial diversity; plant–microbe interactions; bacterial plant probiotics; rhizobia
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Interests: agronomy of microbial plant biostimulants; formulation of microbial plant biostimulants
Interests: microbiology; rhizobium; PGPB
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Dear Colleagues,
Microbial endophytes comprise a wide range of bacteria inhabiting the inner tissues of plants which can enhance the plant growth. Within these bacteria, those living inside the nodules of legumes and the roots of every plant are of particular interest, as they are promising crop-growth-promoting factors. Nevertheless, most works to date have focused on basic scientific aspects of plant-growth-promoting microorganisms, and those dealing with their agronomic performance are still scarce. Moreover, in most cases these works only reach the microcosm level and those based on field trials have used non-formulated endophytic strains. Therefore, an adequate formulation of bacterial endophytes which allows an advantageous competitive situation is very important to achieve the expected function in field conditions.
On the other hand, the advances in genomics have allowed the genome analysis of cultured and uncultured bacterial endophytes which are presented as a useful tool for the selection of agronomically efficient strains, but at the present moment more works are needed to approach genomic and agronomic results, to make them coherently related.
This Special Issue will focus on the agronomic aspects of endophytes as crop-growth-promoting factors, and gather all the available technologies to improve the knowledge necessary to develop agronomically effective bacterial plant biostimulants (BPBs).
Prof. Encarna Velazquez
Prof. Fernando González-Andrés
Dr. José David Flores-Félix
Guest Editors
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Keywords
bacterial plant；
biostimulants;
BPB;
bacterial endophytes;
extensive crops;
horticultural crops;
forest crops;
genomics;