Affiliation:
1. University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
The discovery of new plant growth-promoting bacteria is necessary for the continued development of biofertilizers, which are environmentally friendly and cost-efficient alternatives to conventional chemical fertilizers. Biofertilizer effects on plant growth can be inconsistent due to the complexity of plant-microbe interactions, as the same bacteria can be beneficial to the growth of some plant species and neutral or detrimental to others. We examined a set of bacterial endophytes isolated from plants growing in a unique petroleum-contaminated environment to discover plant growth-promoting bacteria. We show that strains of
Plantibacter flavus
exhibit strain-specific plant growth-promoting effects on four different plant species.
Funder
Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
Cited by
30 articles.
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