Comparison of prominent Azospirillum strains in Azospirillum–Pseudomonas–Glomus consortia for promotion of maize growth

Advances and Perspectives to Improve the Phosphorus Availability in Cropping Systems for Agroecological Phosphorus Management

“…In mutualistic cooperations, tripartite interaction (planteAMFebacteria), rather than bipartite (plantebacteria and planteAMF), should be considered (reviewed in Jansa et al, 2013). AMF and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria have been shown to interact (Couillerot et al, 2013). Recently, colonization of AMF by endobacteria was evidenced, which induced differences in efficiency (Desiro et al, 2014).…”

Borderline Products between Bio-fertilizers/ Bio-effectors and Plant Protectants: The Role of Microbial Consortia

“…The modern wheat cultivar "Blasco" treated with MF gave consistent results, predicted by the EN test, in a bread-making panel test: the panel appreciated the bread from the treated "Blasco" flour as very similar and as good as the bread obtained from the ancient wheat cultivar "Sieve", "Inallettabile" and "Gentil Rosso" [45]. Another study on tri-trophic consortium Azospirillum-Pseudomonas-Glomus [46] showed that the three-component inoculants may be useful in promoting maize growth. Application of a consortium of AMF and the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) was studied by Mäder et al [47] and found to positively affect crop yield, grain, soil quality and nutrient uptake of the staple food crop wheat (Triticum aestivum (L.)) in a rotation with either rice (Oriza sativa (L.)) or black gram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper).…”

The Production and Potential of Biofertilizers to Improve Crop Yields

“…Some developments in sequencing AMF genomes and shifting focus from multiallelic nuclear to more homogeneous mitochondrial genome (Lang and Hijri 2009) have enabled the design and use of specific molecular markers to identify individual genotypes (strains) of AMF, applicable both in the glasshouse and in the field (Boerstler et al 2010;Kiers et al 2011). However, not all results are yet available in a fully quantitative mode as some studies only apply specific genotype/strain markers using endpoint PCR (Sýkorová et al 2012), whereas only few very recent papers employed specific markers in quantitative PCR (Kiers et al 2011;Krak et al 2012;Walker et al 2012;Couillerot et al 2013). Available data show that the inoculant strains sometimes survive for up to two seasons (Sýkorová et al 2012).…”