BSocial Tool Deciphers Highly Functional Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterial Consortia.

ABSTRACT: The application of microbial consortia in biotechnological areas has proven to be much more efficient than that of single microorganisms; however, the main difficulty lies in the large number of communities to be tested. The use of models to predict functional efficiency on a high-throughput scale is key to incorporating greater diversity. The BSocial tool (http://m4m.ugr.es/BSocial.html) assigns a social behaviour to each strain based on its contribution to the overall growth of the consortium through a statistical analysis, defining a 'social consortium'. To determine the effectiveness of the BSocial tool for designing a biofertilizer, the social behaviour of 8 plant growth-promoting microorganisms belonging to Azospirillum, Bacillus, Bradyrhizobium, Ensifer and Pseudomonas, as well as 3

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Toledo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12696026 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature