“…Applied studies. The development of crops such as bean (de Souza et al, 2016), green gram (Kumar et al, 2015), rice (Bhattacharjee et al, 2012), groundnut (Arora et al, 2001), crambe (de Aquino et al, 2018), lettuce or carrot (Flores-Félix et al, 2013) have been tested with the inoculation of different Rhizobium spp. The inoculation has resulted in different positive outcomes, such as increase of shoot mass (Bhattacharjee et al, 2012;de Souza et al, 2016;Flores-Félix et al, 2013), nitrogen plant content (Baba et al, 2015;Bhattacharjee et al, 2012;Flores-Félix et al, 2013) and root development (de Aquino et al, 2018) or reduced effects of pathogenic agents (Arora et al, 2001;Siddiqui et al, 2007).…”