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Rhizosphere Bioengineering and Plant Growth Management Under Climate Changing Era

This review examines how rhizosphere bioengineering — manipulating plant-microbe interactions — can promote plant growth and soil health under climate change conditions including elevated temperature, drought, and pollution stressors such as microplastics.

2025 Journal of Innovative Solutions for Eco-Environmental Sustainability
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Genomic mechanisms of plant growth-promoting bacteria in the production of leguminous crops

This review examines how plant growth-promoting bacteria in the rhizosphere contribute to legume crop production through genomic mechanisms like nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilization, and disease suppression. Researchers discuss the symbiotic relationship between leguminous plants and rhizobia and how molecular signaling drives these beneficial interactions. The study highlights the potential of these bacteria as sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilizers in agriculture.

2023 Frontiers in Genetics 8 citations
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Beneficial Functions of Soil Microbiome for Sustainable Agriculture

This paper is not about microplastics; it reviews the beneficial roles of soil microbiomes in sustainable agriculture, covering plant-bacteria interactions and microbiome management strategies for crop production.

2023 Revista de Ingeniería Biomédica y Biotecnología 1 citations
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Peer Review #2 of "The application of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in Solanum lycopersicum production in the agricultural system: a review (v0.1)"

This peer review evaluates a study on plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in tomato production, assessing the manuscript's coverage of rhizobacteria structure, function, and diversity in soil. The review addresses the potential of PGPR as eco-friendly biological control agents and nutrient providers that could substitute harmful agricultural chemicals.

2022
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Harnessing beneficial bacteria to remediate antibiotic-polluted agricultural soils: integrating source diversity, bioavailability modulators, and ecological impacts

This review examines how plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) can be used to remediate antibiotic-contaminated agricultural soils, covering the diversity of bacterial mechanisms and ecological risks. It also discusses how microplastics in soil interact with antibiotic persistence and resistance gene spread.

2025 Frontiers in Microbiology
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Screening of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria helps alleviate the joint toxicity of PVC+Cd pollution in sorghum plants

Researchers isolated soil bacteria that promote plant growth and showed they can partially offset the combined toxicity of PVC microplastics and cadmium in sorghum, restoring soil nutrient availability and shifting rhizosphere bacterial communities in ways that support nitrogen and phosphorus cycling.

2024 Environmental Pollution 24 citations
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Accelerating phytoremediation of degraded agricultural soils utilizing rhizobacteria and endophytes: a review

This review examines how beneficial soil bacteria and fungi can help plants clean up contaminated agricultural soils, including those polluted by plastic mulch residues, pesticides, and heavy metals. Microbial-assisted phytoremediation is presented as a promising low-cost approach for restoring degraded farmland.

2019 Environmental Reviews 30 citations
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Potential applications for multifunctional microalgae in soil improvement

This review explored the potential of microalgae for improving soil health, including their ability to fix carbon and nitrogen, produce plant hormones, enhance soil fertility, and help control soil pollutants. The study discusses how microalgae-based approaches could contribute to sustainable agriculture by improving soil ecological health and helping remediate contaminated soils.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 46 citations
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The importance of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria to increase air pollution tolerance index (APTI) in the plants of green belt to control dust hazards

Researchers found that inoculating plants with growth-promoting rhizobacteria significantly increased their Air Pollution Tolerance Index, enhancing the ability of green belt vegetation to withstand and filter dust and air pollutants.

2023 Frontiers in Plant Science 10 citations
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Identification of culturable bacteria associated with the rhizosphere of Lablab purpureus growing in Namibia

Culturable bacteria associated with the rhizosphere of Lablab purpureus, a drought-tolerant protein-rich legume crop, were identified in Namibia to support agricultural productivity in marginalised areas. The study characterized rhizobacterial diversity as foundational information for developing bioinoculants to improve this multipurpose crop's performance in African farming systems.

2024 Research Square (Research Square)
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Deciphering the response of nodule bacteriome homeostasis in the bulk soil-rhizosphere-root-nodule ecosystem to soil microplastic pollution

Researchers examined how polyethylene microplastic contamination in soil affects the bacterial communities associated with legume plant root nodules. They found that microplastic treatments accelerated nodule formation but disrupted the balance of beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the nodules. The study suggests that soil microplastic pollution may interfere with the symbiotic relationship between legume crops and their nitrogen-fixing bacterial partners.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials 5 citations
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A Review on Soil and Phytomicrobiome for Plant Disease Management

This review examines how soil microbiomes and agricultural practices influence plant disease management, highlighting the role of beneficial microorganisms in suppressing pathogens. Researchers found that conservation tillage, crop rotation, and mulching promote microbial diversity that helps protect crops from soil-borne diseases. The study suggests that integrating microbiome-focused strategies into farming could reduce reliance on chemical pesticides while improving crop health.

2023 International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 6 citations
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Regulatory Mechanisms of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria in Alleviating Microplastic and Heavy Metal Combined Pollution: Insights from Plant Growth and Metagenomic Analysis

Researchers used metagenomic sequencing to investigate how plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) mitigate the combined toxicity of microplastics and heavy metals on plant growth. PGPB inoculation restored rhizosphere microbial function and reduced plant stress, revealing microbiome-mediated mechanisms for alleviating mixed pollutant toxicity.

2025 Agronomy
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Effects of Sphingobium yanoikuyae SJTF8 on Rice (Oryza sativa) Seed Germination and Root Development

Researchers assessed the effects of five concentrations of Sphingobium yanoikuyae SJTF8, a pollutant-degrading rhizobacterium, on rice seed germination and root development, finding concentration-dependent impacts on seedling growth with potential implications for its use as a soil bioremediation agent in agricultural settings.

2022 Agriculture 13 citations
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Unearthing soil-plant-microbiota crosstalk: Looking back to move forward

This review examines the complex interactions between soil, plants, and microbiota, tracing the evolution of soil fertility assessment from crop performance metrics to modern microbiome-based approaches. Researchers emphasize that soil quality must be evaluated by combining physical, chemical, and biological parameters, and that understanding microbial community dynamics is essential for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem health.

2023 Frontiers in Plant Science 29 citations
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Soil Microplastic Remediation: Exploring the Role of Microorganism/PGPR in Sustainable Cleanup

This review explored the role of microorganisms and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in bioremediation of microplastic-contaminated soils, summarizing evidence that microbial communities can degrade or immobilize plastic particles and discussing practical strategies for field application.

2023 ACS symposium series 3 citations
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Improving Functioning of Soil–Plant Systems Using the Application of Sustainable and Intelligent Methods

This editorial introduces a special journal issue on improving soil-plant system functioning using sustainable agricultural methods. Microplastic contamination of agricultural soils is increasingly recognized as a challenge for crop production and soil health.

2023 Agronomy
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Enhancing Soil Health and Plant Growth through Microbial Fertilizers: Mechanisms, Benefits, and Sustainable Agricultural Practices

This study examines how microbial fertilizers improve soil health by boosting beneficial microorganism populations that help plants absorb nutrients and resist disease. While not directly about microplastics, healthy soil microbial communities are important for breaking down environmental contaminants including plastics. The research supports sustainable farming practices that could help soils better cope with microplastic contamination.

2024 Agronomy 201 citations
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Maize root-soil microbial interactions and their effects on soil health and yield

Researchers examined interactions between maize roots and soil microbial communities, investigating how root-microbe dynamics influence soil health indicators and crop yield. The study found specific rhizosphere microbial associations that promote nutrient availability and plant productivity.

2024 TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Mitigation of microplastic toxicity in soybean by synthetic bacterial community and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interaction: Altering carbohydrate metabolism, hormonal transduction, and genes associated with lipid and protein metabolism

Researchers found that inoculating soybean plants with a combination of mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria helped protect them from microplastic-induced stress, improving biomass, seed quality, antioxidant defenses, and hormone balance. The study suggests that soil microbe communities could be harnessed as a sustainable strategy to help crops cope with growing microplastic contamination in agricultural soils.

2024 Plant Stress 4 citations
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Effects of tobacco plant residue return on rhizosphere soil microbial community

Researchers found that returning tobacco crop residues to soil significantly increased the diversity and complexity of soil microbial communities, boosting beneficial bacteria like Sphingomonas. This suggests that recycling crop residues is a practical strategy for improving soil health and agricultural ecosystem functioning.

2022 Annals of Microbiology 9 citations
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Long-term adaptation study of bacterial isolates of plant growth-promoting bacteria in heat-stressed conditions

Researchers examined whether plant growth-promoting bacteria can adaptively respond to heat stress, finding that bacteria under periodic stress consistently outperformed those under non-periodic stress across multiple growth-promoting traits, with two novel Paenibacillus alvei strains showing the strongest adaptive capacity.

2026 Food Science and Applied Biotechnology
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Plant Disease Management: Leveraging on the Plant-Microbe-Soil Interface in the Biorational Use of Organic Amendments

This review discusses how organic soil amendments can help restore soil health and manage plant diseases by supporting beneficial microbial communities in the root zone. Researchers found that organic amendments improve the interactions between plants, soil microbes, and the surrounding soil environment, creating conditions less favorable for plant pathogens. The study emphasizes that sustainable agricultural practices that nurture soil biology may reduce the need for synthetic pesticides and plastics in farming.

2021 Frontiers in Plant Science 101 citations
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Early inoculation of an endophyte alters the assembly of bacterial communities across rice plant growth stages

Researchers inoculated rice seedlings with a beneficial core endophytic bacterium and tracked how it affected bacterial communities throughout the plant's growth stages. They found the inoculation significantly altered microbial diversity in roots and stems and influenced bacterial community assembly. The study suggests that early introduction of beneficial microbes could be a useful tool for shaping healthier plant-associated microbial communities in agriculture.

2023 Microbiology Spectrum 15 citations