Nitrate modulates the physiological tolerance responses of the halophytic species Sarcocornia fruticosa to copper excess.

Coexistence impact of pollutants of different nature on halophytes tolerance to metal excess has not been thoroughly examined, and plant functional responses described so far do not follow a clear pattern. Using the Cu-tolerant halophyte Sarcocornia fruticosa as a model species, we conducted a greenhouse experiment to evaluate the impact of two concentration of copper (0 and 12 mM CuSO) in combination with three nitrate levels (2, 14 and 50 mM KNO) on plant growth, photosynthetic apparatus performance and ROS-scavenging enzymes system. The results revealed that S.

Exploring through the use of physiological and isotopic techniques the potential of a PGPR-based biofertilizer to improve nitrogen fertilization practices efficiency in strawberry cultivation.

The use of microorganisms as a biofertilizer in strawberry has focused mainly on pathogen biocontrol, which has led to the underestimation of the potential of microorganisms for the improvement of nutritional efficiency in this crop. A study was established to investigate the impact of a plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) based biofertilizer integrated by self-compatible stress tolerant strains with multiple PGP properties, including atmospheric nitrogen fixation, on strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa cv. Rociera) tolerance to N deficiency in terms of growth and physiological performance.

Culturomics and Circular Agronomy: Two Sides of the Same Coin for the Design of a Tailored Biofertilizer for the Semi-Halophyte .

According to the EU, the global consumption of biomass, fossil fuels, metals, and minerals is expected to double by 2050, while waste will increase by 70%. In this context, the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) intends to integrate development and sustainability. In this regard, tailored biofertilizers based on plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) can improve plant yield with fewer inputs.

Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Improve Rice Response to Climate Change Conditions.

Rice is one of the most important crops in the world and is considered a strategic crop for food security. Furthermore, the excessive use of chemical fertilizers to obtain high yields causes environmental problems. A sustainable alternative includes taking advantage of beneficial bacteria that promote plant growth.

Nodule Synthetic Bacterial Community as Legume Biofertilizer under Abiotic Stress in Estuarine Soils.

Estuaries are ecologically important ecosystems particularly affected by climate change and human activities. Our interest is focused on the use of legumes to fight against the degradation of estuarine soils and loss of fertility under adverse conditions. This work was aimed to determine the potential of a nodule synthetic bacterial community (SynCom), including two sp.

Improving Grapevine Heat Stress Resilience with Marine Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Consortia.

Amid climate change, heatwave events are expected to increase in frequency and severity. As a result, yield losses in viticulture due to heatwave stress have increased over the years. As one of the most important crops in the world, an eco-friendly stress mitigation strategy is greatly needed.

A Culturomics-Based Bacterial Synthetic Community for Improving Resilience towards Arsenic and Heavy Metals in the Nutraceutical Plant .

Plant-growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) help plants thrive in polluted environments and increase crops yield using fewer inputs. Therefore, the design of tailored biofertilizers is of the utmost importance. The purpose of this work was to test two different bacterial synthetic communities (SynComs) from the microbiome of , a moderate halophyte with cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical applications.

Stimulation of PGP Bacteria on the Development of Seeds, Plants and Cuttings of the Obligate Halophyte (Moric.) Piirainen & G. Kadereit.

The Earth is undergoing alterations at a high speed, which causes problems such as environmental pollution and difficulty in food production. This is where halophytes are interesting, due to their high potential in different fields, such as remediation of the environment and agriculture. For this reason, it is necessary to deepen the knowledge of the development of halophytes and how plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGP) can play a fundamental role in this process.

Interactive Temperature and CO Rise, Salinity, Drought, and Bacterial Inoculation Alter the Content of Fatty Acids, Total Phenols, and Oxalates in the Edible Halophyte .

In this work, we studied the combined effect of increased temperature and atmospheric CO, salt and drought stress, and inoculation with plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on the growth and some nutritional parameters of the edible halophyte . We found that the increase in temperature and atmospheric CO, combined with salt and drought stresses, led to important changes in fatty acids (FA), phenols, and oxalate contents, which are compounds of great importance for human health. Our results suggest that the lipid profile will change in a future climate change scenario, and that levels of oxalate and phenolic compounds may change in response to salt and drought stress.

Enhanced legume growth and adaptation to degraded estuarine soils using sp. nodule endophytes.

The joint estuary of Tinto and Odiel rivers (SW Spain) is one of the most degraded and polluted areas in the world and its recovery is mandatory. Legumes and their associated bacteria are recommended sustainable tools to fight against soils degradation and loss of fertility due to their known positive impacts on soils. The aim of this work was to isolate and characterize plant growth promoting nodule endophytes (PGPNE) from inside nodules of spp.

Bacterial assemblage in Mediterranean salt marshes: Disentangling the relative importance of seasonality, zonation and halophytes.

Salt marshes gather a high diversity of prokaryotes across their environmental gradients. Most of this diversity and the factors determining their community assemblage are unknown. We massively sequenced a portion of the 16S gene to characterize the diversity of prokaryotes in soils from a salt marsh in Río Piedras, Southern Spain.

Role of Nodulation-Enhancing Rhizobacteria in the Promotion of Development in Nutrient-Poor Soils.

Legumes are usually used as cover crops to improve soil quality due to the biological nitrogen fixation that occurs due to the interaction of legumes and rhizobia. This symbiosis can be used to recover degraded soils using legumes as pioneer plants. In this work, we screened for bacteria that improve the legume-rhizobia interaction in nutrient-poor soils.

Improved Nodulation under Stress Assisted by sp. Endophytes.

Legumes are the recommended crops to fight against soil degradation and loss of fertility because of their known positive impacts on soils. Our interest is focused on the identification of plant-growth-promoting endophytes inhabiting nodules able to enhance legume growth in poor and/or degraded soils. The ability of S110 and JM-310 to promote alfalfa growth in nutrient-poor and metal-contaminated estuarine soils was studied.

Salinity Modulates L. Tolerance to Diesel Fuel Pollution.

Soil contamination with petroleum-derived substances such as diesel fuel has become a major environmental threat. Phytoremediation is one of the most studied ecofriendly low-cost solutions nowadays and halophytes species has been proved to have potential as bio-tools for this purpose. The extent to which salinity influences diesel tolerance in halophytes requires investigation.

Heavy Metal Pre-Conditioning History Modulates Physiological Tolerance along a Salinity Gradient.

Land salinization, resulting from the ongoing climate change phenomena, is having an increasing impact on coastal ecosystems like salt marshes. Although halophyte species can live and thrive in high salinities, they experience differences in their salt tolerance range, being this a determining factor in the plant distribution and frequency throughout marshes. Furthermore, intraspecific variation to NaCl response is observed in high-ranging halophyte species at a population level.

Impact of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Ecophysiology and Heavy Metal Phytoremediation Capacity in Estuarine Soils.

is a C halophyte that grows naturally in South Western Spain salt marshes, under soil salinity and heavy metal pollution (mostly Cu, Zn, As, and Pb) caused by both natural and anthropogenic pressure. However, very few works have reported the phytoremediation potential of . In this work, we studied a microbe-assisted phytoremediation strategy under greenhouse conditions.

Uncovering PGPB Vibrio spartinae inoculation-triggered physiological mechanisms involved in the tolerance of Halimione portulacoides to NaCl excess.

Plant growth promoting bacteria' (PGPB) beneficial role on plant tolerance to salinity stress has previously been well recognized. However, bacteria-triggered plant physiological mechanisms involved in this response require investigation, especially in plants with innate salt tolerance. A glasshouse experiment was designed to investigate the effect of the PGPB Vibrio spartinae on Halimione portulacoides growth, physiological performance and ion homeostasis in plants exposed to 0, 171, 510 and 1020 mM NaCl for 100 days.

Importance of Physiological Traits Vulnerability in Determine Halophytes Tolerance to Salinity Excess: A Comparative Assessment in .

Many halophytic physiological traits related to the tolerance of plants to salinity excess have been extensively studied, with a focus on biomass and/or gas exchange parameters. To gain a more complete understanding of whether salinity excess affects the physiological performance of halophytes, an experiment was performed using the halophyte L. as a model.

The ACC-Deaminase Producing Bacterium sp CT7.15 as a Tool for Improving Nodulation and Growth in Arid Regions of Tunisia.

is a spontaneous Mediterranean legume that can be a good candidate as pioneer plants to limit regression of vegetation cover and loss of biodiversity in Tunisian arid soils. In order to grow legumes in such soils, pairing rhizobia and nodule associated bacteria (NAB) might provide numerous advantages. In this work, cultivable biodiversity of rhizobial symbionts and NAB in nodules of plants growing in five arid regions of south Tunisia was characterized.

Sarcocornia fruticosa photosynthetic response to short-term extreme temperature events in combination with optimal and sub-optimal salinity concentrations.

Climate change would increase frequency and intensity of extreme events as heat and cold waves. There is a lack of studies that consider the co-occurrence of these waves with other abiotic factors relevant on a climate change scenario as salinity. Therefore, it could be interesting to improve our knowledge about the effects that this co-occurrence could have in different species due to the species specific effect of the photosynthesis tolerance to extreme temperatures.

Supporting Spartina: Interdisciplinary perspective shows Spartina as a distinct solid genus.

In 2014, a DNA-based phylogenetic study confirming the paraphyly of the grass subtribe Sporobolinae proposed the creation of a large monophyletic genus Sporobolus, including (among others) species previously included in the genera Spartina, Calamovilfa, and Sporobolus. Spartina species have contributed substantially (and continue contributing) to our knowledge in multiple disciplines, including ecology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, biogeography, experimental ecology, biological invasions, environmental management, restoration ecology, history, economics, and sociology. There is no rationale so compelling to subsume the name Spartina as a subgenus that could rival the striking, global iconic history and use of the name Spartina for over 200 yr.

Safe Cultivation of in Metal-Polluted Soils from Semi-Arid Regions Assisted by Heat- and Metallo-Resistant PGPR.

Soil contamination with heavy metals is a constraint for plant establishment and development for which phytoremediation may be a solution, since rhizobacteria may alleviate plant stress under these conditions. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to elucidate the effect of toxic metals on growth, the activities of ROS (reactive oxygen species)-scavenging enzymes, and gene expression of grown under different metal and/or inoculation treatments. The results showed that, besides reducing biomass, heavy metals negatively affected physiological parameters such as chlorophyll fluorescence and gas exchange, while increasing ROS-scavenging enzyme activities.

Soil phenanthrene phytoremediation capacity in bacteria-assisted Spartina densiflora.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) have become a threat for the conservation of wetlands worldwide. The halophyte Spartina densiflora has shown to be potentially useful for soil phenanthrene phytoremediation, but no studies on bacteria-assisted hydrocarbon phytoremediation have been carried out with this halophyte. In this work, three phenanthrene-degrading endophytic bacteria were isolated from S.

Impact of short-term extreme temperature events on physiological performance of Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods under optimal and sub-optimal saline conditions.

Increasing extreme temperature climatic events could exert an important effect on plant photosynthetic performance, which could be modulated by the co-occurrence with other environmental factors, such as salinity, in estuarine ecosystems. Therefore, a mesocosm experiment was designed to assess the impact of temperature events for three days (13/5 °C, 25/13 °C and 40/28 °C) in combination with two NaCl concentrations (171 and 1050 mM NaCl) on the physiological performance of Salicornia ramosissima. Extreme temperature events had a negative impact on S.

Inter-population differences tolerance to Cu excess during the initials phases of Juncus acutus life cycle: implications for the design of metal restoration strategies.

The research on the plant population metal intra-specific tolerance variability is of paramount importance for the design of phytoremediation restoration. The aim of this study was to asses if any variability exists in the copper stress response during seed germination and seedling development in Juncus acutus depending on provenance habitat. Our results showed that J.