Selected indigenous drought tolerant rhizobium strains as promising biostimulants for common bean in Northern Spain.

ABSTRACT: Drought is the most detrimental abiotic stress in agriculture, limiting crop growth and yield and, currently, its risk is increasing due to climate change. Thereby, ensuring food security will be one of the greatest challenges of the agriculture in the nearest future, accordingly it is essential to look for sustainable strategies to cope the negative impact of drought on crops. Inoculation of pulses with biostimulants such as rhizobium strains with high nitrogen fixation efficiency and drought-tolerance, has emerged as a promising and sustainable production strategy. However, some commercial inoculums are not effective under field conditions due to its lower effectiveness against indigenous rhizobium strains in the establishment of the symbiosis. Thus, in the present study, we evaluated th

SUBMITTER: Del-Canto A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10090513 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature