Modern intensive agricultural practices face numerous challenges that pose major threats to
global food security. In order to address the nutritional requirements of the ever-increasing …

Abiotic stresses strongly affect plant growth, development, and quality of production; final
crop yield can be really compromised if stress occurs in plants' most sensitive phenological …

Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) is present in most higher plants, but also in animals and fungi.
PPO in plants had been summarized several years ago. However, recent advances in …

Microbial-root associations are important to help plants cope with abiotic and biotic
stressors. Managing these interactions offers an opportunity for improving the efficiency and …

Crop productivity is affected by environmental and genetic factors. Microbes that are
beneficial to plants are used to enhance the crop yield and are alternatives to chemical …

Drought stress is the major abiotic factor limiting crop production. Co-inoculating crops with
nitrogen fixing bacteria and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) improves plant …

Nutrient deficiency in most terrestrial ecosystems constrains global primary productivity.
Rhizosphere nutrient availability directly regulates plant growth and is influenced by many …

Siderophores are low molecular weight secondary metabolites produced by microorganisms
under low iron stress as a specific iron chelator. In the present study, a rhizospheric …

To overcome the challenge of increasing food production with a significant reduction of
agrochemical use and environmental pollution, and an increase of natural resource …

There is increasing difficulty in identifying new plant leaf diseases as a result of
environmental change. There is a need to identify the factors influencing the emergence and …