Axel de Zélicourt, Lukas Synek, Maged M Saad, Hanin Alzubaidy, Rewaa Jalal, Yakun Xie, Cristina Andrés-Barrao, Eleonora Rolli, Florence Guerard, Kiruthiga G Mariappan, Ihsanullah Daur, Jean Colcombet, Moussa Benhamed, Thomas Depaepe, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Heribert Hirt
Several plant species require microbial associations for survival under different biotic and abiotic stresses. In this study, we show that Enterobacter sp. SA187, a desert plant endophytic bacterium, enhances yield of the crop plant alfalfa under field conditions as well as growth of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana in vitro, revealing a high potential of SA187 as a biological solution for improving crop production. Studying the SA187 interaction with Arabidopsis, we uncovered a number of mechanisms related to the beneficial association of SA187 with plants...
March 2018: PLoS Genetics