Role of Beneficial Bacteria in Plant Growth and Health Promotion
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 305
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant microbe interactions; volatile organic compound; plant–bacteria and bacteria–bacteria signaling; plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; plant resistance to pathogens; rhizosphere microbiology; plant microbiome modulation; agricultural microbiology; biological nitrogen fixation symbiosis; endophytes; biocorrosion
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the beginning of plant lineage, plants have co-evolved with bacteria, establishing either beneficial or harmful relationships for the plants. Beneficial bacteria exert physiological functions that are complementary to plant physiology, increasing plant fitness to the challenges introduced by the changing ambient conditions and thus resulting in plant growth promotion.
Aside from elucidating the effects of new strains of bacterial species characterized by the promotion of plant growth, the present Special Issue aims to further contribute to this exciting field of study by analyzing the mechanisms involved in this bacterial–plant growth promoting effect including, but not limited to, the following: action mechanisms in the availability of nutrients; plant defense by priming; pathogen exclusion; volatile organic compound emissions; bacterial production of plant growth regulators; and synthetic community formulation. All of these mechanisms are analyzed through classical microbiology and plant morphometrics, biochemical, transcriptomic, and genomic approaches. Works examining new plant-beneficial bacteria are also welcome.
Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under evaluation for publication in another journal.
Dr. Eduardo Valencia-Cantero
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bacterial phytostimulation
- bacterial enhancement of plant nutrient availability
- bacterial priming of plant defense
- pathogen exclusion
- bacterial volatiles organic compounds
- plant growth regulators producing bacteria
- bacteria synthetic community
- bacterial increase of plant fitness to ambiental changes
- new plant beneficial bacteria
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