scholarly journals Analysis of Microbial Diversity in Soil under Ginger Cultivation

Scientifica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiqing Liu ◽  
Lin Wu ◽  
Xingwen Wu ◽  
Honghai Li ◽  
Qinhong Liao ◽  
...  

Ginger is a perennial monocotyledonous herb, which can be used as both a vegetable and a medicinal plant. However, it is susceptible to various plant pathogens. Microbial diversity in soil is related closely to the health and productivity of plant crops including ginger. In the current study, we compared microbial diversity from soil samples under ginger cultivation (disease incidence of >50% [relatively unhealthy sample] versus disease incidence of <10% [relatively healthy sample]). The bacterial and fungal taxa were analyzed by Illumina-based sequencing, with 16S and ITS identification, respectively. Both bacterial and fungal OTUs were significantly more in the healthy soil sample than the unhealthy sample. Moreover, the dominant bacterial and fungal genera were detected to be different in each sample. Rhodanobacter and Kaistobacter were the dominant bacterial genera in the healthy sample, while Rhodoplanes and Bradyrhizobium were the dominant genera in the unhealthy sample. For fungal analysis, Cladosporium, Cryptococcus, and Tetracladium were the dominant genera in the healthy sample, while Lecanicillium, Pochonia, and Rhodotorula were the dominant genera in the unhealthy sample. Collectively, the basic information of microbial diversity in ginger soil is helpful for elucidating the ginger-microbe interactions and potentially selecting suitable plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and biocontrol agents for ginger production.

The Analyst ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuchen Zhang ◽  
Rachel Komorek ◽  
Jiyoung Son ◽  
Shawn Riechers ◽  
Zihua Zhu ◽  
...  

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) play a crucial role in biological control and pathogenic defense on and within plant tissues, however the mechanism(s) by which plants associate with PGPR to elicit...


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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Anup Muni Bajracharya

Good health starts with good food. Humans expect agriculture to supply good food with sufficient nutrients, economically and culturally valued foods, fibers and other products. But the excessive application of synthetic pesticides has exerted an adverse effect on bio-flora, fauna and natural enemies. Even a largest part of yield has been lost due to various stresses, like biotic and abiotic stresses to the plant. On this account, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), an eco-friendly biopesticides is boon for the biocontrol of different plant pathogens. Moreover, PGPR strains can enhance the plant growth through the production of various plant growth promoting substances. These are generally a group of microorganism that is found either in the plane of the rhizosphere or above roots impacting some positive benefits to plants. PGPR are associated with plant roots and augment plant productivity and immunity; however, recent work by several groups shows that PGPR also elicit so-called 'induced systemic tolerance' to salt and drought. PGPR might also increase nutrient uptake from soils, thus reducing the need for fertilizers and preventing the accumulation of nitrates and phosphates in agricultural soils. Scientific researches involve multidisciplinary approaches to understand adaptation of PGPR, effects on plant physiology and growth, induced systemic resistance, biocontrol of plant pathogens, bio fertilization, and potential green alternative for plant productivity, viability of co inoculating, plant microorganism interactions, and mechanisms of root colonization.


Diversity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alawiye ◽  
Babalola

Bacteria play a vital role in the quality of soil, health, and the production of plants. This has led to several studies in understanding the diversity and structure in the plant rhizosphere. Over the years, there have been overwhelming advances in molecular biology which have led to the development of omics techniques which utilize RNA, DNA, or proteins as biomolecules; these have been gainfully used in plant–microbe interactions. The bacterial community found in the rhizosphere is known for its colonization around the roots due to availability of nutrients, and composition, and it affects the plant growth directly or indirectly. Metabolic fingerprinting enables a snapshot of the metabolic composition at a given time. We review metabolites with ample information on their benefit to plants and which are found in rhizobacteria such as Pseudomonas spp. and Bacillus spp. Exploring plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria using omics techniques can be a true success story for agricultural sustainability.


Author(s):  
A.R. Resmi ◽  
B. Lovely ◽  
A. Jayapal ◽  
G. Suja ◽  
N. Chitra

Background: Amaranthus is the most popular and commercially cultivated leafy vegetable in the Southern part of India, especially Tamil Nadu and Kerala which is susceptible to a number of diseases. Among the different diseases affecting amaranth, foliar blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn, is considered as the most serious disease in Kerala. Methods: A field experiment was taken up at Onattukara Regional Agricultural Research Station (O.R.A.R.S), Kayamkulam, Alappuzha, Kerala during December 2019 to February 2020 to assess the influence of dust and liquid formulations of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) mix I on growth, yield and disease incidence (Rhizoctonia leaf blight) in amaranthus. Result: The results of the study reveal that maximum number of leaves, number of branches per plant and yield were produced by the plants that were subjected to seedling root dip with 5% talc formulation followed by drenching with 5% talc solution at 30 DAT and 45 DAT. Regardless of talc or liquid formulation of PGPR mix I (2%) seedling dip followed by drenching at 15, 30 and 45 DAT provided the least disease incidence and disease severity in amaranthus at Onattukara condition. Hence use of PGPR mix I is a prerequisite for effective growth, yield and management of leaf blight of amaranthus at Onattukara.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sommer ◽  
Marion Wenig ◽  
Claudia Knappe ◽  
Susanne Kublik ◽  
Baerbel Foesel ◽  
...  

Both above- and below-ground parts of plants are constantly confronted with microbes, which are main drivers for the development of plant-microbe interactions. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria enhance the immunity of above-ground tissues, which is known as induced systemic resistance (ISR). We show here that ISR also influences the leaf microbiome. We compared ISR triggered by the model strain Pseudomonas simiae WCS417r (WCS417) to that triggered by Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) in Arabidopsis thaliana. In contrast to earlier findings, immunity elicited by both strains depended on salicylic acid. Both strains further relied on MYC2 for signal transduction in the plant, while WCS417-elicited ISR additionally depended on SAR-associated metabolites, including pipecolic acid. A metabarcoding approach applied to the leaf microbiome revealed a significant ISR-associated enrichment of amplicon sequence variants with predicted plant growth-promoting properties. WCS417 caused a particularly dramatic shift in the leaf microbiota with more than 50% of amplicon reads representing two bacterial species: WCS417 and Flavobacterium sp.. Co-inoculation experiments using WCS417 and At-LSPHERE Flavobacterium sp. Leaf82, suggest that the proliferation of these bacteria is influenced by both microbial and plant-derived factors. Together, our data connect systemic immunity with leaf microbiome dynamics and highlight the importance of plant-microbe-microbe interactions for plant health.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uzma Sultana ◽  
Suseelendra Desai ◽  
Gopal Reddy ◽  
TNVKV Prasad

AbstractStrains of Pseudomonas, Bacillus and Azospirillum with plant growth promoting ability were checked for their zinc solubilizing ability. Efficient zinc solubilizers were checked for their ability to produce nano-scale zinc particles. The nanoparticles from the cell-free culture filtrates obtained from these strains were characterized for particle size, Zeta potential and functional groups. Presence of Zn nanoparticles in the bacterial culture filtrate was confirmed by particle distribution and Scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis. Most properties of nanoparticles are size dependent. Zinc nanoparticles were observed to be spherical in shape and size ranged from 52.0 to 106.0 nm. Zeta potential of the Zn nanoparticles was estimated to understand the stability of the particles. The measured zeta potentials varied from −14.5mV to +179.10 mV indicating high stability and dispersion of the zinc nanoparticles. FTIR peaks at different wave numbers depicted the role of functional groups of proteins in the biosynthesis of Zn nanoparticles. This finding opens a new area of research focusing on microbe-microbe interactions in rhizosphere and plant-microbe interactions at rhizosphere apart from biosynthesis of nanoparticles, which has major applications. To our knowledge, this is the first report of production of nanoparticles as part of nutrient mobilization by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Maldonado ◽  
Andrés Rodríguez ◽  
Bastián Ávila ◽  
Paloma Morales ◽  
Máximo Patricio González ◽  
...  

The importance of phosphate solubilizing rhizobacteria (PSB) has been well-document as an option for enhancing sustainable agriculture. As a particular group of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), PSB play an important role in the soil phosphorus cycle, increasing the bioavailability for growth and plant development. This study analyses the plant growth promoting effects of 5 strains (BN0009, BN0013, BN0015, BN0024, and BN0035) out of 180 isolated from Jarava frigida (Phil.) F.Rojas (Poaceae), a native grass from the Andean Atacama desert from North of Chile. The five bacterial isolated (BN strains) were identified as non-pathogenic Erwinia sp. and show a high phosphate solubilization capacity for Ca(PO4) ranging from 608.9 to 781.4 mg/L. Strains IAA production varies between 23.5 and 35.9 mg/L, siderophores, phosphatase (alkaline and acid) production was also observed, but none of the five isolated presented antagonism against plant pathogens Botrytis sp. and Sclerotinia sp. All isolates enhanced seed germination in Lactuca sativa and Solanum lycopersicum (excepting BN009). Additionally, all strains stimulated the early root elongation and seedling development in lettuce and tomato. Pot experiments displayed that BN0015, BN0024, and BN0035 significantly promote plant growth regarding root and leaf area, root and leaf weight, as well as leaf number compared with non-treated plants. In a field experiment with lettuce and two fertilization treatments (50 and 100% of the recommended crop fertilization), BN0024 application improved crop productivity compared to respective control. P content in plants with bacterial inoculations increased significantly compared to control in either fertilization treatment, suggesting an improved nutrient uptake. Also, lettuce with 50% fertilization and inoculation with BN0024 equate productivity with the control 100% fertilization. Finally, we discuss these results in the context of applicability to enhance the agroecosystem productivity in arid and semiarid zones.


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