Université de Fribourg

Genome insights of the plant-growth promoting bacterium Cronobacter muytjensii JZ38 with volatile-mediated antagonistic activity against Phytophthora infestans

Eida, Abdul Aziz ; Bougouffa, Salim ; L’Haridon, Floriane ; Alam, Intikhab ; Weisskopf, Laure ; Bajic, Vladimir B. ; Saad, Maged M. ; Hirt, Heribert

In: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020, vol. 11, p. 369

Salinity stress is a major challenge to agricultural productivity and global food security in light of a dramatic increase of human population and climate change. Plant growth promoting bacteria can be used as an additional solution to traditional crop breeding and genetic engineering. In the present work, the induction of plant salt tolerance by the desert plant endophyte Cronobacter sp. ...