Publications by authors named "Urooj Rashid"
(RS) is a pathogenic fungus that affects maize ( L.) plants and causes banded leaf and sheath blight (BLSB) with severe consequences leading to significant economic losses. Contrarily, rhizobacteria produce numerous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that help in devising the environment-friendly mechanism for promoting plant growth and stress alleviation without having physical contact with plants.
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- A study investigated the effects of drought-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on wheat plants to improve their drought resilience, addressing a serious threat to wheat productivity under climate change.
- Two specific bacterial strains, Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus licheniformis, showed significant drought-tolerance abilities and beneficial traits like ACC deaminase activity and IAA production, which help enhance plant growth.
- Inoculating wheat with these strains significantly improved various growth metrics under drought stress, including germination rates, biomass, and photosynthetic capacity, indicating their potential as a biotechnological approach to combat drought impacts on agriculture.
Research on plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPR) revealed an effective role of bacterial volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in stress alleviation. Out of 15 PGPR strains, infection with VOCs from Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes' resulted in maximum germination, growth promotion, and drought tolerance in maize plants. The VOCs of P.
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