Journal
MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 252, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2021.126842
Keywords
Crop roots; Fertilizers; Microbiome; Phosphorus; Rhizosphere; Solubilization
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- OCP Group at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University [AS17 2019-2022]
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Research on plant growth promoting bacteria, especially P solubilizing bacteria (PSB), continues to be a priority in agricultural institutions for enhancing efficient phosphorus (P) utilization in crop production. New lines of research are focusing on optimizing the PSB-fertilizer-crop root interaction to improve P efficiency and agricultural performance. The systematic changes caused by PSB on crop roots and the agronomic profitability of PSB co-application with fertilizers in amended soils and inoculated crops are key areas of interest in current research.
Although research on plant growth promoting bacteria began in the 1950s, basic and applied research on bacteria improving use of phosphorus (P) continues to be a priority among many agricultural research institutions. Ultimately, identifying agriculturally beneficial microbes, notably P solubilizing bacteria (PSB), that enhance the efficient use of P supports more sustainable cropping systems and the judicious use of mineral nutrients. In parallel, there is more attention on improving crop root P acquisition of existing soil P pools as well as by increasing the proportion of fertilizer P that is taken up by crops. Today, new lines of research are emerging to investigate the co-optimization of PSB-fertilizer-crop root processes for improved P efficiency and agricultural performance. In this review, we compile and summarize available findings on the beneficial effects of PSB on crop production with a focus on crop P acquisition via root system responses at the structural, functional and transcriptional levels. We discuss the current state of knowledge on the mechanisms of PSB-mediated P availability, both soil- and root-associated, as well as crop uptake via P solubilization, mineralization and mobilization, mainly through the production of organic acids and P-hydrolyzing enzymes, and effects on phytohormone signaling for crop root developement. The systematic changes caused by PSB on crop roots are discussed and contextualized within promising functional trait-based frameworks. We also detail agronomic profitability of P (mineral and organic) and PSB co-application, in amended soils and inoculated crops, establishing the connection between the influence of PSB on agroecosystem production and the impact of P fertilization on microbial diversity and crop functional traits for P acquisition.
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