“…Free-living rhizobia were shown to synthesize trehalose in response to phenanthrene, hyperosmolarity, high temperature, salt stress, very low oxygen levels, and desiccation (Hoelzle and Streeter, 1990;Ghittoni and Bueno, 1996;Dardanelli et al, 1997Dardanelli et al, , 2000Cytryn et al, 2007;Essendoubi et al, 2007;McIntyre et al, 2007;Keum et al, 2008). Furthermore, the resistance of Rhizobium etli to salt stress was improved in a strain overexpressing a trehalose 6-phosphate synthase gene and decreased in a strain mutated in the same gene (Suarez et al, 2008).…”