Houda Ilahi, Elisa Zampieri, Cristiana Sbrana, Francesca Brescia, Luca Giovannini, Roghayyeh Mahmoudi, Gholamreza Gohari, Mustapha Missbah El Idrissi, Mohamed Najib Alfeddy, Martino Schillaci, Lahcen Ouahmane, Alice Calvo, Fabiano Sillo, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Raffaella Balestrini, Bacem Mnasri
UNLABELLED: Currently, salinization is impacting more than 50% of arable land, posing a significant challenge to agriculture globally. Salt causes osmotic and ionic stress, determining cell dehydration, ion homeostasis, and metabolic process alteration, thus negatively influencing plant development. A promising sustainable approach to improve plant tolerance to salinity is the use of plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB). This work aimed to characterize two bacterial strains, that have been isolated from pea root nodules, initially called PG1 and PG2, and assess their impact on growth, physiological, biochemical, and molecular parameters in three pea genotypes (Merveille de Kelvedon, Lincoln, Meraviglia d'Italia) under salinity...
February 2024: Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants: An International Journal of Functional Plant Biology