11 research outputs found
Effects of Pseudomonas fluorescens Seed Bioinoculation on Heavy Metal Accumulation for Mirabilis jalapa Phytoextraction in Smelter-Contaminated Soil
Isolation and characterization of an N-methylcarbamate insecticide-degrading methylotrophic bacterium
Potential Use of Newly Isolated Bacterial Strain Ochrobactrum anthropi in Bioremediation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Effect of carbofuran on enzymatic activities and growth of tomato plants in natural, fertilized and vermicompost-amended soils
Exploitation of Rhizosphere Microbiome Services
The rhizosphere is a soil hot spot where, due to a tight plant-bacteria interaction, plants recruit a beneficial microbiome, enhancing its density and activity. Rhizosphere microbial communities have the potential to provide several services, and their management and \u201cengineering\u201d can be exploited to set up agro-environmental biotechnologies. In this chapter, after a brief overview of the array of services that we can obtain from rhizosphere beneficial microbiome, two case studies are presented: i) the exploitation of plant growth promoting bacteria to increase plant tolerance to drought, potentially able to improve crop plants yields in arid and semi-arid lands, ii) the exploitation of plant biostimulation effect over degrading microbial populations in the rhizosphere, sustaining phyto-rhyzo-remediation approaches in PCB contaminated soils. In each case study the experimental settings, the in vitro and in vivo tests, the result evaluation and modelling are reported, together with a discussion of the critical issues