Pakistan is among top three chickpea producing countries but the crop is usually grown on marginal lands without irrigation and fertilizer application which significantly hampers its yield. Soil fertility and inoculation with beneficial rhizobacteria play a key role in nodulation and yield of legumes. Four kabuli and six desi chickpea genotypes were, therefore, evaluated for inoculation respons...

In the present study, 217 rhizobacterial isolates were obtained from six different tea estates of Assam, India and subjected to preliminary in vitro plant growth promotion (PGP) screening for indole acetic acid (IAA) production, phosphate solubilization, siderophore production and ammonia production. Fifty isolates showed all the PGP traits and five isolates did not exhibit any PGP traits. Thes...

the iranian thymus daenensis subsp. daenensis is rich in monoterpene phenols (especially thymol and carvacrol). this research was conducted to isolate and characterize the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgprs) from rhizosphere of t. daenensis. pgprs were screened based on some physiological traits including iaa production, phosphate solubilization, and siderophore compounds production ab...

In this study, bacteria were isolated from the rhizosphere and inside the roots of canola (Brassica napus L.) plants grown in the field from northern Iran. Firstly, 150 strains (endophytic and rhizospheric isolates) isolated from canola were characterized for plant growth promoting (PGP) traits. Of them, one hundred isolates produced indole3-acetic acid (IAA), whereas 17 isolates solubilized ph...

Proving of rhizobia’s other abilities in spite of Nitrogen fixation ability and considering these bacteria as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), researching tasks in this field have increased. Now, it’s completely proved that we can find such strains among many more strains of each rhizobial group that can also do effective process in plant growth promoting as plant growth hormones pr...

Soil borne plant pathogens cause annual economic losses in most of the crops. In nature microbial interactions involve competition, hyper parasitism or antibiosis and these phenomena play an important role in striking ecological balance and keeping several plant pathogens in check. It is observed that plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) influence the growth and yield of many plants. In ...

Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are known to influence plant growth by various direct or indirect mechanisms. In search of efficient PGPR strains with multiple activities, a total of 150 bacterial isolates belonging to Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Azotobacter and Rhizobium were isolated from different rhizospheric soil of chick pea in the vicinity of Allahabad. These test isolates were bi...

Azospirillum brasilense belongs to the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria with direct growth promotion through the production of the phytohormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). A key gene in the production of IAA, annotated as indole-3-pyruvate decarboxylase (ipdC), has been isolated from A. brasilense, and its regulation was reported previously (A. Vande Broek, P. Gysegom, O. Ona, N. Hendrickx,...

A study to attain healthy tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) seedlings through environment-friendly natural biological products took place from January March 2022. Determining the effects of inoculum prepared five plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) isolates, i.e., Pseudomonas fluorescens, putida, Lysinibacillus fusiformis, Enterobacter cloacae, and Kineococcus radiotolerans on produ...

Indole acetic acid (IAA) is a plant growth-promoting hormone used in agriculture; therefore, its continuous production is of paramount importance. IAA-producing eight bacteria were isolated from the rhizosphere of Verbascum vulcanicum. Among them, Arthrobacter agilis A17 gave maximum IAA production (75 mg/L) and this strain was used to immobilization studies. The A. agilis A17 cells were immobi...