Publications by authors named "Carlos Eduardo da Silva Oliveira"

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  • - The research aimed to understand how co-inoculating maize plants with specific bacteria and using nitrogen fertilizers can improve nitrogen fixation and recovery from fertilizers.
  • - It tested different seed inoculations and nitrogen application levels, finding that bacterial co-inoculation boosted photosynthesis and water efficiency, especially when nitrogen availability was low.
  • - The study concluded that using a moderate amount of nitrogen (120-180 kg N/ha) alongside bacterial co-inoculation resulted in the best nitrogen-use efficiency and higher maize yields, while excessive nitrogen reduced bacteria's nitrogen-fixing abilities.
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  • Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) can enhance crop yield and nutrition, with this study focusing on their effects on dwarf castor beans following legumes and grasses in Brazil.
  • The research tested various nitrogen (N) application rates alongside PGPB inoculation, finding significant increases in grain and oil yields at specific N rates, especially with inoculation treatments.
  • The findings suggest that combining optimal N rates with PGPB inoculation can lead to higher castor bean yields while reducing fertilizer use, promoting more sustainable agricultural practices.
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Inoculation with is a promising approach to increase plant yield and nutrient acquisition. In this context, this study aimed to estimate the concentration that increases yield, gas exchange, and nutrition of lettuce plants in a hydroponic system. The research was carried out in a greenhouse in Ilha Solteira, Brazil.

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Inoculation with has promisingly increased plant yield and nutrient acquisition. The study aimed to estimate the dose of that increases yield, gas exchange, nutrition, and foliar nitrate reduction. The research was carried out in a greenhouse at Ilha Solteira, in a hydroponic system in randomized blocks with four replicates.

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Phosphate fertilization in highly weathered soils has been a major challenge for sugarcane production. The objective of this work was to evaluate the foliar levels of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) and the technological quality and productivity of second ratoon cane as a function of inoculation with plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPBs) together with the residual effect of phosphate fertilization. The experiment was carried out at the research and extension farm of Ilha Solteira, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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The challenging alterations in climate in the last decades have had direct and indirect influences on biotic and abiotic stresses that have led to devastating implications on agricultural crop production and food security. Extreme environmental conditions, such as abiotic stresses, offer great opportunities to study the influence of different microorganisms in plant development and agricultural productivity. The focus of this review is to highlight the mechanisms of plant growth-promoting microorganisms (especially bacteria and fungi) adapted to environmental induced stresses such as drought, salinity, heavy metals, flooding, extreme temperatures, and intense light.

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Introduction And Aims: The intensive cropping system and imbalance use of chemical fertilizers to pursue high grain production and feed the fast-growing global population has disturbed agricultural sustainability and nutritional security. Understanding micronutrient fertilizer management especially zinc (Zn) through foliar application is a crucial agronomic approach that could improve agronomic biofortification of staple grain crops. The use of plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPBs) is considered as one of the sustainable and safe strategies that could improve nutrient acquisition and uptake in edible tissues of wheat to combat Zn malnutrition and hidden hunger in humans.

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  • - Wheat is a major food source worldwide, and its growth is heavily influenced by nitrogen availability, which poses challenges for food security.
  • - A study was conducted in Brazil to assess the impact of nitrogen fertilization and seed inoculation with specific bacteria on wheat yield and nitrogen efficiency in a no-tillage system.
  • - Results showed that co-inoculation with two different bacteria improved grain nitrogen accumulation, yield, and recovery of applied nitrogen, suggesting that nitrogen needs can be reduced with this approach.
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Introduction: Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPBs) could be developed as a sustainable strategy to promote plant growth and yield to feed the ever-growing global population with nutritious food. Foliar application of nano-zinc oxide (ZnO) is an environmentally safe strategy that alleviates zinc (Zn) malnutrition by improving biochemical attributes and storage proteins of grain.

Methods: In this context, the current study aimed to investigate the combined effect of seed inoculation with PGPBs and foliar nano-ZnO application on the growth, biochemical attributes, nutrient metabolism, and yield of maize in the tropical savannah of Brazil.

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Extreme environmental conditions, such as abiotic stresses (drought, salinity, heat, chilling and intense light), offer great opportunities to study how different microorganisms and plant nutrition can influence plant growth and development. The intervention of biological agents such as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) coupled with proper plant nutrition can improve the agricultural importance of different plant species. Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) belongs to the monophyletic taxon and consists of around 338 genera and 3709 species worldwide.

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Cadmium is a widely distributed heavy metal in agricultural soils that affects plant growth and productivity. In this context, the current study investigated the effects of different cadmium (Cd) doses (0, 25, 50, 75, and 100 mg L of CdSO) on the growth and physiological attributes of safflower ( L.) including plant height (cm), root length (cm), fresh weight (g) of root, stem, and leaves, leaf number, macro and micro-nutrients, Se, and heavy metal (Cd, Cr, and Pb) content.

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A successful microbial inoculant can increase root colonization and establish a positive interaction with native microorganisms to promote growth and productivity of cereal crops. Zinc (Zn) is an intensively reported deficient nutrient for maize and wheat production in Brazilian Cerrado. It can be sustainably managed by inoculation with plant growth-promoting bacteria and their symbiotic association with other microorganisms such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and dark septate endophytes (DSE).

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Even though it is a forest native plant, there are already several studies evaluating the small genome of L., which belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family, and may be an excellent representative model for the other plants from the same family. L.

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The use of beneficial fungi and bacteria stimulate plant growth and serve to improve yield and food quality in a sustainable manner. The electrical conductivity of nutrients solution is closely linked to better nutrition of vegetable plants in a hydroponic system. Therefore, objectives of current study were to evaluate the effect of isolated and combined inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense and Trichoderma harzianum under two electrical conductivities on growth, nutrition, and yield of lettuce in hydroponic cultivation.

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Biofortification of cereal crops with zinc and diazotrophic bacteria is a sustainable solution to nutrient deficiency and hidden hunger. The inoculation of staple grain crops such as maize is increased with reducing productivity losses while improving nutrition and use efficiency under climatic extremes and weathered soils of tropical savannah. Therefore, objectives of our study were to evaluate the influence of seed inoculation with diazotrophic bacteria (No inoculation-Control, , , and ) together with residual effect of soil Zn (absence and presence) on growth, yield, Zn nutrition, Zn use efficiencies, and intake of maize in 2019 and 2020 cropping seasons.

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Phosphorus (P) is a critical nutrient for high sugarcane yields throughout its cultivation cycles, however, a higher amount of P becomes rapidly unavailable to plants due to its adsorption to soil colloids. Some plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPBs) may be able to enhance P availability to plants and produce phytohormones that contribute to crop development, quality, and yield. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate leaf concentrations of nitrogen (N) and P, yield, and technological quality of sugarcane as a function of different levels of phosphate fertilization associated with inoculation of PGPBs.

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