Background Soil salinization threatens food security and ecosystem health, and is one of the
important drivers to the degradation of many ecosystems around the world. Soil …

Drought and salinity are among the most important environmental factors that hampered
agricultural productivity worldwide. Both stresses can induce several morphological …

Salinity is a major abiotic stress threatening crop production. Root-derived bacteria (RDB)
are hypothesized to play a role in enhancing plant adaptability to various stresses. However …

A wide range of abiotic and biotic stresses adversely affect plant's growth and production.
Under stress, one of the main responses of plants is the modulation of exudates excreted in …

Background The collective impact of climate change and soil salinity is continuously
increasing the degraded lands across the globe, bringing agricultural productivity and food …

The rhizosphere microbiome is composed of diverse microbial organisms, including
archaea, viruses, fungi, bacteria as well as eukaryotic microorganisms, which occupy a …

Plants are now recognized as metaorganisms which are composed of a host plant
associated with a multitude of microbes that provide the host plant with a variety of essential …

In extreme environments, the relationships between species are often exclusive and based
on complex mechanisms. This review aims to give an overview of the microbial ecology of …

The interaction of silicon and soil microorganisms stimulates crop enhancement to ensure
sustainable agriculture. Silicon may potentially increase nutrient availability in rhizosphere …

Marker gene amplicon sequencing is often preferred over whole genome sequencing for
microbial community characterization, due to its lower cost while still enabling assessment of …