Interaction of Plants and Endophytic Microorganisms: Community, Functions and Applications
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Microbe Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 27269
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Interests: endophytic bacteria; bacterial diversity; plant–microbe interactions; bacterial plant probiotics; rhizobia
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Interests: microbiology; rhizobium; PGPB
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Interests: endophytic bacteria; rhizobia; bacterial diversity; plant–microbe interactions; bacterial plant probiotics; STEM education
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Interests: host-microbe interactions; bioinformatics; microbiology; multi-OMICs; microbialecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, knowledge about the bacterial population that inhabits plants has taken a rather simple view with limited interactions, and the actual situation is now known to involve a complex network of interactions between plants, microbes and metazoans. In this community, endophytic bacteria are highly relevant when it comes to plant–microbe interactions, which comprise a wide range of bacteria inhabiting the inner tissues of plants. The behaviour of some of these bacteria, acting as plant biostimulants through diverse growth promotion mechanisms, has led to an increased interest in the knowledge of endophytic bacterial biodiversity in different plants. Culturomics and metagenomics have been applied for this purpose, allowing the identification of a high number of new genera and species living in the inner tissues of different plants. Genome analysis of these bacteria has allowed a more comprehensive understanding of the metabolism of the bacteria that inhabit these environments as well as of their phylogenetic relationships. On the other hand, endophytic bacteria may have advantages as plant growth promoters over rhizospheric bacteria due to the closer and more efficient molecular interactions. Thus, endophytes will play key roles in the formulation of biostimulants that increase plant yield and health, including the resistance to different stresses.
This Special Issue will focus on the analysis of plant bacterial endophyte diversity based on culturomics and metagenomics approaches, the phylogenetic relationships among these bacteria inhabiting different plant tissues and different plant hosts and their relevance in the plant growth, health and resistance to environmental stresses.
We encourage the submission of research original articles and reviews addressing these topics.
Prof. Dr. Encarna Velazquez
Dr. José David Flores-Félix
Dr. Martha Helena Ramírez-Bahena
Dr. Zaki Saati-Santamaría
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- endophytic microorganisms
- microbial ecology
- plant biostimulants
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