Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Microbiological and Genomic Characterization, and Potential Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 1625
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Agriculture, University of Venda, Private Bag X5050, Thohoyandou 0950, South Africa
Interests: molecular biology; applied microbiology; PCR; microbiology; statistical data analysis; plant biotechnology; environment ecology; environmental microbiology; molecular microbiology
Interests: microbial biotechnology; agriculture; rhizosphere; biofertilizers; metagenomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable and increased agricultural production systems are one of the most dependable solutions to sufficiently feed the alarmingly increasing world population, which is estimated to be 10 billion in the next 50 years. In the past several decades, productivity in agriculture has been achieved through the prolonged usage of external chemical inputs. However, these production systems, coupled with the current threat of global climate change, are not sustainable. As one of the most effective and sustainable alternatives to this problem, research and development on plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have gained momentum in the past few decades. The rhizosphere of many wild and cultivated plant species harbor hundreds of PGPR strains with several beneficial genes and traits that could be exploited for biotechnological application in agriculture to increase crop productivity and improve soil health. Despite myriads of PGPR characterization studies in the past, several more beneficial strains have yet to be characterized. In this Special Issue, we invite manuscripts including original research articles and reviews that report high-throughput microbiological and genomic characterization to elucidate their phylogeny, metabolic and genomic features, as well as beneficial plant–microbe interactions and signaling methods in the rhizosphere. Moreover, manuscripts that address the biotechnological application of PGPR in sustainable agroecological systems are also invited under this Special Issue.
Dr. Ahmed Idris Hassen
Prof. Dr. Olubukola Oluranti Babalola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- PGPR
- rhizosphere
- rhizobacteria
- genome
- formulation
- phylogeny
- next-generation sequencing
- soil
- inoculants
- agriculture
