Exploring the Differential Impact of Salt Stress on Root Colonization Adaptation Mechanisms in Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
Lorena del Rosario Cappellari, Pablo Cesar Bogino, Fiorela Nievas, Walter Giordano, Erika Banchio · 2023
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Lorena Cappellari and co-authors test how three helpful root bacteria cope with salt while settling on a plant's roots. Salty soil stunts crops, and growth-promoting rhizobacteria can soften the blow, but each strain survives salt in its own way. Their 2023 study grows the strains across four salt levels and measures swimming, swarming, film building, and clumping, then tries them on peppermint under salt stress.
One strain swarmed twice as wide as salt rose, yet swam no better. Another lost swimming speed but built one hundred eighty percent more biofilm and clumped more, gripping instead of roaming. The third kept its clumping steady while its biofilm thinned. Despite the different playbooks, all three rescued peppermint growth under salt, raising fresh weight by forty to seventy percent. The authors say there is more than one way for a root ally to earn its place.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lorena del Rosario Cappellari, Pablo Cesar Bogino, Fiorela Nievas, Walter Giordano, Erika Banchio |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |