The Recent Use of Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria to Promote the Growth of Agricultural Food Crops

• Published in: Agriculture (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 5; p. 1089
• Main Authors: Reed, Lucy, Glick, Bernard R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2023
• Subjects: Agricultural industry; Agricultural production; Bacteria; Carbon; Commercialization; commercialized PGPB; Crops; Food; Food crops; Fungi; Growth; Metabolism; Nitrogen; organic agriculture; Pathogens; PGPB; Plant growth; plant stress; plant-growth-promoting bacteria; Population; Potassium; Productivity; Soil bacteria; Soil microbiology; Soil microorganisms; Transgenic plants; VOCs; Volatile organic compounds

In the past 15–20 years, the employment of Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) to facilitate the growth of agricultural food crops has increased dramatically. These beneficial soil bacteria, whose use and demonstrations of efficacy have previously been largely limited to the laboratory, have now...