Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria and Their Application in Sustainable Crop Production

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Parul Chaudhary ◽  
Heena Parveen ◽  
Saurabh Gangola ◽  
Govind Kumar ◽  
Pankaj Bhatt ◽  
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Author(s):  
Becky N. Aloo ◽  
Billy A. Makumba ◽  
Ernest R. Mbega

The world’s population is increasing and so are agricultural activities to match the growing demand for food. Conventional agricultural practices generally employ artificial fertilizers to increase crop yields, but these have multiple environmental and human health effects. For decades, environmentalists and sustainability researchers have focused on alternative crop fertilization mechanisms to address these challenges, and biofertilizers have constantly been researched, recommended, and even successfully-adopted for several crops. Biofertilizers are microbial formulations made of indigenous plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) which can naturally improve plant growth either directly or indirectly, through the production of phytohormones, solubilization of soil nutrients, and production of iron-binding metabolites; siderophores. Biofertilizers, therefore, hold immense potential as tools for sustainable crop production especially in the wake of climate change and global warming. Despite the mounting interest in this technology, their full potential has not yet been realized. This review updates our understanding of the PGPR biofertilizers and sustainable crop production. It evaluates the history of these microbial products, assesses their present state of utilization, and also critically propounds on their future prospects for sustainable crop production. Such information is desirable to fully evaluate their potential and can ultimately pave the way for their increased adoption for crop production.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 12245
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar ◽  
Ved Prakash Giri ◽  
Shipra Pandey ◽  
Anmol Gupta ◽  
Manish Kumar Patel ◽  
...  

Vegetable cultivation is a promising economic activity, and vegetable consumption is important for human health due to the high nutritional content of vegetables. Vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, and several phytochemical compounds. However, the production of vegetables is insufficient to meet the demand of the ever-increasing population. Plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) facilitate the growth and production of vegetable crops by acquiring nutrients, producing phytohormones, and protecting them from various detrimental effects. In this review, we highlight well-developed and cutting-edge findings focusing on the role of a PGPR-based bioinoculant formulation in enhancing vegetable crop production. We also discuss the role of PGPR in promoting vegetable crop growth and resisting the adverse effects arising from various abiotic (drought, salinity, heat, heavy metals) and biotic (fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and insect pests) stresses.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabish Akhtar ◽  
Shubham Kumar ◽  
Sukhdeo Kumar ◽  
M. R. Meena

The growth of plants promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) has gained widespread importance in agriculture. These are beneficial bacteria found in nature that live actively in plant roots and improve plant growth and increase agricultural productivity.. (PGPR) promoting plant growth shows an important role in the sustainable agricultural industry. The increasing demand for crop production is a major challenge nowadays, with a significant lack of use of synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The use of PGPR has proven to be an environmentally sound way of increasing crop yields by facilitating plant growth through direct or indirect mechanisms. The mechanisms of PGPR include regulating hormonal and nutritional balance, inducing resistance against plant pathogens, and dissolving nutrients for easy uptake by plants. Furthermore, PGPRs show synergistic and antagonistic interactions with microorganisms within the rhizosphere and in bulk soils, which indirectly increases plant growth rates. There are several bacteria species that act as PGPR. This review summarizes the methodology of PGPR as a bio-fertilizer in agriculture.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilde Antonella Di Benedetto ◽  
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Maria Rosaria Corbo ◽  
Daniela Campaniello ◽  
Mariagrazia Pia Cataldi ◽  
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BIOLOVA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Elza - Yulistiana ◽  
Hening Widowati ◽  
Agus Sutanto

Increasing agricultural crop production, especially onion, can be done by improving the optimal growing environment for plants. Plant roots can be optimized for the absorption of nutrients and water in the process of photosynthesis. One way that can be used is by applying Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR). In addition to increasing the content of micro and macro elements in the soil can also support the growth of leek plants obtained by applying Pineapple Liquid Waste (LCN) made using bacterial isolation and can meet the needs of nutrients in plants. This study aims to determine the effect Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) from Apus (Gigantochola apus) bamboo root and Pineapple Liquid Waste (LCN) fertilizer on the growth of leeks (Allium fistulosum L.), then the results of this study are treated as community information in the form of Leaflets. The method used in this study was an experiment using a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) system consisting of 4x4 factorials with 3 replications. Based on the results of calculations and data analysis, the results show that there is an effect of PGPR and LCN on the growth of scallions on the height and number of tillers per scallion plant family, but there is no influence on pseudo stem circumference and wet weight per scallion plant family, and the results of this study can be used as a source of public information in the form of leaflets with an average percentage included in good eligibility criteria.


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