Salt tolerance of endophytic root bacteria and their effects on seed germination and viability on tomato plants.

ABSTRACT: Salinity is one of the most brutal environmental factors limiting the productivity of agricultural lands worldwide. It is considered that the salinity may be one of the important reasons for the low yield in Iğdır of the tomato plants, which is medium resistant (3-5 dS.m^-1) among vegetables. Eco-friendly techniques such as endophytic root bacteria treatments (ERB) are needed to restore saline soils to agriculture and also to increase the yield of tomatoes. Endophytic bacteria colonizing the inside of plants increase plant growth by various mechanisms and also mitigate the adverse effects of biotic and abiotic stresses on plants. In this study, endophytic bacteria were isolated from the roots of tomato plants exposed to salt stress. Then, these isolates' tolerance levels to diffe

SUBMITTER: Akbaba M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10689620 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature