A Drought Resistance-Promoting Microbiome Is Selected by Root System under Desert Farming

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Authors

Ramona Marasco · University of Milan

Eleonora Rolli · University of Milan

Besma Ettoumi · Institut Supérieur de Biotechnologie de Sfax

Gianpiero Vigani · University of Milan

Francesca Mapelli · University of Milan

Sara Borin · University of Milan

A.F. Abou-Hadid ·

Abstract

Crop cultivation provides critical ecosystem services in arid lands with the plant root system acting as a "resource island" able to attract and select microbial communities endowed with multiple PGP traits that sustain plant development under water limiting conditions.

Topics & Keywords

Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life in Land

Publication Details

Published in: PLoS ONE

Volume 7, Issue 10, pp. e48479-e48479

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048479

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