A native plant growth promoting bacterium, Bacillus sp. B55, rescues growth performance of an ethylene-insensitive plant genotype in nature.

Meldau DG, Hoang HL, Baldwin IT (2012) A native plant growth promoting bacterium, Bacillus sp. B55, rescues growth performance of an ethylene-insensitive plant genotype in nature. Front Plant Sci 3, 112. PubMed

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Long Hoa Hoang

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Characterizing and analyzing the ecological consequences of the plant - endophyte interactions of Solanum nigrum and Nicotiana attenuata
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Abstract

Many plants have intimate relationships with soil microbes, which improve the plant's growth and fitness through a variety of mechanisms. Bacillus sp. isolates are natural root-associated bacteria, isolated from Nicotiana attenuata plant roots growing in native soils. A particular isolate B55, was found to have dramatic plant growth promotion (PGP) effects on wild type (WT) and transgenic plants impaired in ethylene (ET) perception (35S-etr1), the genotype from which this bacterium was first isolated. B55 not only improves N. attenuata growth under in vitro, glasshouse, and field conditions, but it also

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doi: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00112 PMID: 22701461

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