Effect of exogenous treatment with zaxinone and its mimics on rice root microbiota across different growth stages.

ABSTRACT: Enhancing crops productivity to ensure food security is one of the major challenges encountering agriculture today. A promising solution is the use of biostimulants, which encompass molecules that enhance plant fitness, growth, and productivity. The regulatory metabolite zaxinone and its mimics (MiZax3 and MiZax5) showed promising results in improving the growth and yield of several crops. Here, the impact of their exogenous application on soil and rice root microbiota was investigated. Plants grown in native paddy soil were treated with zaxinone, MiZax3, and MiZax5 and the composition of bacterial and fungal communities in soil, rhizosphere, and endosphere at the tillering and the milky stage was assessed. Furthermore, shoot metabolome profile and nutrient content of the seeds were evalua

SUBMITTER: Mazzarella T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11682185 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature