Drought-tolerant rhizobacterial consortia with diverse plant growth promoting traits enhance wheat and faba bean growth under water and low-P availability promising multi-traits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Staple crops like wheat and faba bean are increasingly subjected to multiple and simultaneous stresses, resulting in substantial yield reduction. Although vast available knowledge about the role of root-rhizosphere microbes in enhancing crop tolerance to single stress, few is known about the potential of bacterial consortia rationally assembled from strains with defined and complementary ecological functions to improve crop tolerance to combined drought and phosphorus (P) deficiency. This study evaluated wheat (Triticum durum) or faba bean (Vicia faba) morpho-physiological response to three functionally diverse drought-tolerant bacterial consortia (C₇, C₈, C₉), in greenhouse conditions, under low-P well-watered conditions (rock phosphate

SUBMITTER: Benmrid B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12642334 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature