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  • Research confirms that specific plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains, such as NBRI 12 M and others, play key roles in helping plants grow and cope with salt stress.
  • Whole-genome analysis of these strains revealed various genes responsible for promoting growth, metabolizing nutrients, and enhancing salinity tolerance through mechanisms like sporulation and motility.
  • NBRI 12 M, in particular, significantly improved plant growth metrics under salt stress while reducing levels of certain defense enzymes, indicating its effectiveness in supporting plant health.
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Arsenic (As) contamination is a major problem affecting soil and groundwater in India, harming agricultural crops and human health. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have emerged as promising agents for reducing As toxicity in plants. This study aimed to isolate and characterize As-tolerant PGPR from rice field soils with varying As levels in five districts of West Bengal, India.

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In the current study, plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SN13 (SN13) was evaluated for arsenic (As) toxicity amelioration potential under arsenate (AsV) and arsenite (AsIII) stress exposed to rice (Oryza sativa var Saryu-52) plants for 15 days. The PGPR-mediated alleviation of As toxicity was demonstrated by modulated measures such as proline, total soluble sugar, malondialdehyde content, enzymatic status, relative water content, and electrolytic leakage in treated rice seedlings under arsenic-stressed conditions as compared to the respective control. SN13 inoculation not only improved the agronomic traits but also modulated the micronutrient concentrations (Fe, Mo, Zn, Cu, and Co).

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Global warming has reached an alarming situation, which led to a dangerous climatic condition. The irregular rainfalls and land degradation are the significant consequences of these climatic changes causing a decrease in crop productivity. The effect of drought and its tolerance mechanism, a comparative roots proteomic analysis of chickpea seedlings grown under hydroponic conditions for three weeks, performed at different time points using 2-Dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE).

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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are one of the most critical epigenetic regulators of gene expression which modulate a spectrum of development and defence response processes in plants. Chromium (Cr) contamination in rice imposes a serious concern to human health as rice is used as staple food throughout the world. Although several studies have established the differential response of miRNAs in rice during heavy metal (arsenic, cadmium) and heat or cold stress, no report is available about the response of miRNAs during Cr stress.

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The CAMTA gene family is crucial in managing both biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. Our comprehensive analysis of this gene family in cotton resulted in the identification of 6, 7 and 9 CAMTAs in three sequenced cotton species, i.e.

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L. is a bulbous ornamental plant popular for its notable fragrant flowers which make it the plant of high importance. In spite of its economic value, narcissus is found to be susceptible for a number of diseases borne by fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and viruses.

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Arsenic (As) contamination in rice leads to yield decline and causes carcinogenic risk to human health. Although the role of nitric oxide (NO) in reducing As toxicity is known, NO-mediated genetic modulation in the plant during arsenic toxicity has not yet been established. We analyzed the key components of NO metabolism and the correlations between NO interaction and arsenic stress using rice as a relevant model plant.

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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), an important source of genetic variations, are often used in crop improvement programme. The present study represented comprehensive In silico analysis of nucleotide polymorphisms in wild (Solanum habrochaites) and cultivated (Solanum lycopersicum) species of tomato to explore the consequence of substitutions both at sequence and structure level. A total of 8978 SNPs having Ts/Tv (Transition/Transversion) ratio 1.

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Recent studies have identified rice (Oryza sativa) as a major dietary source of inorganic arsenic (As) and poses a significant human health risk. The predominant model for plant detoxification of heavy metals is complexation of heavy metals with phytochelatins (PCs), synthesized non-translationally by PC synthase (PCS) and compartmentalized in vacuoles. In this study, in order to restrict As in the rice roots as a detoxification mechanism, a transgenic approach has been followed through expression of phytochelatin synthase, CdPCS1, from Ceratophyllum demersum, an aquatic As-accumulator plant.

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Homology based gene silencing has emerged as a convenient approach for repressing expression of genes in order to study their functions. For this purpose, several antisense or small interfering RNA based gene silencing techniques have been frequently employed in plant research. Artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs) mediated gene silencing represents one of such techniques which can utilize as a potential tool in functional genomics.

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Here we report the genome sequence of a plant-growth-promoting rhizobacterium, Pseudomonas putida strain MTCC5279. The length of the draft genome sequence is approximately 5.2 Mb, with a GC content of 62.

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Thiol metabolism is the primary detoxification strategy by which rice plants tolerate arsenic (As) stress. In light of this, it is important to understand the importance of harmonised thiol metabolism with As accumulation and tolerance in rice plant. For this aim, tolerant (T) and sensitive (S) genotypes were screened from 303 rice (Oryza sativa) genotypes on exposure to 10 and 25 μM arsenite (As(III)) in hydroponic culture.

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Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal is one of the most valuable medicinal plants synthesizing a large number of pharmacologically active secondary metabolites known as withanolides, the C28-steroidal lactones derived from triterpenoids. Though the plant has been well characterized in terms of phytochemical profiles as well as pharmaceutical activities, not much is known about the biosynthetic pathway and genes responsible for biosynthesis of these compounds.

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Arsenate and arsenite exposure modulate antioxidants and amino acids in contrasting arsenic accumulating rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes.

J Hazard Mater

November 2013

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI), Lucknow 226001, India; Amity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India.

Carcinogenic arsenic (As) concentrations are found in rice due to irrigation with contaminated groundwater in South-East Asia. The present study evaluates comparative antioxidant property and specific amino acid accumulation in contrasting rice genotypes corresponding to differential As accumulation during arsenate (As(V)) and arsenite (As(III)) exposures. The study was conducted on two contrasting As accumulating rice genotypes selected from 303 genotype accessions, in hydroponic conditions.

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