Methanol bioeconomy: promotion of rice crop yield in paddy fields with microbial cells prepared from natural gas-derived C₁ compound.

ABSTRACT: Methylotrophs, which can utilize methanol as a sole carbon source, are promising microorganisms to be exploited in a methanol-based bioeconomy, in which a variety of useful compounds are biotechnologically produced from natural gas-derived methanol. Pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs) are common plant phyllospheric bacteria and are known to enhance seedling growth and total biomass of various plants. However, improvement of crop yield by inoculation of PPFMs at the field level has not been well investigated. We herein describe improvement of crop yield of several rice cultivars by foliar spraying of PPFMs. After selection of PPFM strains and rice cultivars by the in vitro seedling growth test, we further conducted paddy field experiments. The crop yield of the sake-brewing ric

SUBMITTER: Yurimoto H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8313254 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature