Journal
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 96, Issue 5, Pages 1137-1155Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4429-x
Keywords
Habitat-imposed stresses; Stress tolerance; Bacterial volatiles; Induced systemic resistance
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- DBT [BT/PR1231/AGR/021/340/2011]
- Dean, FASC
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Habitat-imposed abiotic and biotic stress is a serious condition and is also a land-degradation problem in arid and semi-arid regions, causing major problem for crop productivity. Most of the cultivable and a least half of irrigated lands around the world are severely affected by environmental stresses. However, in these conditions, there are plant populations successfully adapted and evolutionarily different in their strategy of stress tolerance. Vascular plants do not function as autonomous individuals, but house diverse communities of symbiotic microbes. The role of these microbes can no longer be ignored. Microbial interactions are critical not only for host but also for fungal survival in stressed environments. Plants benefit extensively by harboring these associated microbes; they promote plant growth and confer enhanced resistance to various pathogens by producing antibiotics. To date, improvements in plant quality, production, abiotic and biotic stress resistance, nutrient, and water use have relied largely on manipulating plant genomes by breeding and genetic modification. Increasing evidence indicates that the function of symbiotic microbes seems to parallel more than one of these characteristics.
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