Responses of agronomically important crops to inoculation with Azospirillum

By S. Dobbelaere, Anja Croonenborghs, A. Thys, D. Ptacek, J. Vanderleyden, P. Dutto, Carlos A. Labandera-Gonzalez, J. Caballero-Mellado, J. F. Aguirre, Y. Kapulnik and 5 more. 2001

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Azospirilla are free-living rhizobacteria that are able to promote plant growth and increase yields in many crops of agronomic importance. It is assumed that the bacteria affect plant growth mainly by the production of plant growth promoting substances, which leads to an improvement in root development and an increase in the rate of water and mineral uptake. In the present review, we discuss the physiological responses of the plant roots to inoculation with Azospirillum, and report on field and greenhouse experiments carried out with these bacteria during 1994-2001 in Belgium, Uruguay, Mexico and Israel.

Subfields: Plant Science

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Inoculation with selected strains of Azospirillum brasilense and A. lipoferum improves yields of maize and wheat in Brazil (2010, background): “The bacteria are believed to produce various phytohormones that improve root growth and absorption of water and minerals and increase tolerance of stresses such as salinity and drought, leading to more-vigorous and more productive plants (e.g. Bashan and Holguin 1997; Dobbelaere et al. 2001; Bashan ”
Non-symbiotic bacterial diazotrophs in crop-farming systems : can their potential for plant growth promotion be better exploited? (2004, background): “However, Dobbelaere et al. (2001) found A. brasilense increased grain yield of maize by 0.7 – 1.0 t ha 21 (50 – 95% increase) depending on soil conditions when N was applied at low to medium (18–46 kg ha 21 ) rates (Table 5 ).”
Plant growth promotion in cereal and leguminous agricultural important plants: from microorganism capacities to crop production. (2014, background): “The beneficial capacity of each group has been studied separately (Dobbelaere et al. 2001; Barea et al. 2002; Murray 2011; Verma et al. 2010).”
Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Allow Reduced Application Rates of Chemical Fertilizers (2009, result): “For example, previous reports have suggested positive impacts of microbes on N uptake involving nonlegume biological fixation [4, 13, 22, 37, 41].”
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR): emergence in agriculture (2011, background): “Dobbelaere et al. (2001) assessed the inoculation effect of Azospirillum sp., on the growth of some agriculturally important plants and observed a significant increase in the dry weight of both the root system and aerial parts of the PGPR inoculated plants, resulting in better development and…”
Sanctions, Cooperation, and the Stability of Plant-Rhizosphere Mutualisms (2008, background): “In field experiments with wheat in Belgium, inoculation with Azospirillum increased shoots per plant and root weight approximately 30% each (Dobbelaere et al. 2001).”
Microbial co-operation in the rhizosphere. (2005, background): “Pseudomonas and Bacillus are the genera most commonly described as having PGPR, but many other taxa also contain PGPR. Selected strains of PGPR are being used as seed inoculates (Dobbelaere et al., 2001; Vessey, 2003; Lucy et al., 2004; Sahin et al., 2004; Zahir et al., 2004).”
Applications of free living plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (2004, background): “In fact, it has been reported that the plant growth promotion effect of Azospirillum only occurs in nitrogen-limited conditions Dobbelaere et al. 2001; Fallik and Okon 1996 .”
Inoculation with Azospirillum, associated with nitrogen fertilization in maize (2012, background): “, researchers believed that the benefits were derived only from biological nitrogen fixation (Dobbelaere et al., 2001).”