Tofazzal Islam, Abhinandan Deora, Yasuyuki Hashidoko, Atiqur Rahman et al.
A total of 30 bacteria were isolated from the rhizoplane of rice cv. BR29 cultivated in Mymensingh, Bangladesh and from the seedlings obtained from surface-sterilized seeds of BR29. Upon screening, 6 isolates showed varying levels of phosphate solubilizing activity in both agar plate and broth assay...
Yingjie Wu, Luyao Ma, Qizhen Liu, Md Maniruzzaman Sikder et al.
Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) can promote photosynthesis and biomass production of hyperaccumulators, achieving enhanced phytoremediation efficiency of cadmium (Cd). A better understanding of the mechanisms controlling photosynthesis of hyperaccumulating plants by PGPB is necessary for deve...
Shanaz Parvin, Maarten Van Geel, Tanzima Yeasmin, Erik Verbruggen et al.
Soil salinization due to sea level rise and groundwater irrigation has become an important agronomic problem in many parts of the world. Symbiosis between crop species and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) may alleviate salt stress-induced detrimental effects on crop growth and yield, for example, ...
Md. Motaher Hossain, Farjana Sultana, Mitsuo Miyazawa, Mitsuro Hyakumachi
Plant growth-promoting fungi (PGPF) have the potential to confer several benefits to plants in terms of growth and protection against pests and pathogens. In the present study, we tested whether a PGPF isolate, Penicillium spp. GP15-1 (derived from zoysiagrass rhizospheres), stimulates growth and di...
Xiumei Luo, Chengjian Xie, Jinyan Dong, Xingyong Yang et al.
Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne phytopathogenic fungus that causes vascular wilt diseases in a wide variety of crop plants, resulting in extensive economic losses. In the past 5 years, progress has been made in elaborating the interaction between this hemibiotrophic fungus and its host plants. ...
Mohammad Zakaria Solaiman, Hiroshi Hirata
Abstract A pot experiment was conducted under two soil conditions, namely (i) Original paddy soil and (ii) Diluted soil (paddy soil diluted with andosol subsoil; Paddy soil: Andosol subsoil=1:4) to investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and water regimes on dry matter producti...
Golam Jalal Ahammed, Rubya Shamsy, Airong Liu, Shuangchen Chen
Chromium (Cr) is one of the toxic elements that harms all forms of life, including plants. Industrial discharges and mining largely contribute to Cr release into the soil environment. Excessive Cr pollution in arable land significantly reduces the yield and quality of important agricultural crops. T...
Yuanhu Shao, Weixin Zhang, Nico Eisenhauer, Tao Liu et al.
The activity and spread of exotic earthworms often are spatially correlated with N deposition because both arise from human activities. Exotic earthworms, in turn, can also greatly affect soil abiotic and biotic properties, as well as related ecological processes. Previous studies showed, for exampl...
Avizit Das, Mohammad Imtiazur Rahman, Ahlan Sabah Ferdous, Al Amin et al.
Grammothele lineata, an endophyte isolated in our laboratory from jute (Corchorus olitorius acc. 2015) was found to be a substantial paclitaxel producer. Taxol and its related compounds, produced by this endophyte were extracted by growing the fungus in simple nutrient media (potato dextrose broth, ...
Ian J. Alexander
Ectomycorrhizas are the most frequent and widespread mycorrhizal type in the forests and woodlands of cool-temperate and boreal latitudes. Tree species from all the major plant families that provide the dominant trees of these regions (e.g. Pinaceae, Fagaceae, Betulaceae, Salicaceae) habitually form...
Mohammad Zakaria Solaiman, Hiroshi Hirata
Abstract In order to analyze the effectiveness of colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) at the nursery stage on the growth and nutrient concentration of wetland rice after transplanting, the experiments were conducted under glasshouse conditions using two types of soil, namely (i) steri...
Hsuan-Sheng Wang, S. Parent, Α. Gosselin, Yves Desjardins
Micropropagated plantlets of Gerbera jamesonii H. Bolus ex Hook. F. `Terra Mix', Nephrolepis exaltata (L.) Schott `Florida Ruffles', and Syngonium podophyllum Schott `White Butterfly' were inoculated with two vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi, Glomus intraradices Schenck and Smith and G. ...
SR Mondal, Jinat Rehana, MS Noman, SK Adhikary
Experiment was carried out in the mushroom cultivation laboratory, Horticulture Center, Khairtala, Jessore to evaluate the better performance of oyster mushroom Pleurotus florida in different substrate compositions as well as to find out the better substrate for mushroom cultivation. Highest myceliu...
Dong Wang, Xudong Huang, Ning Qiao, Qingling Geng et al.
Abstract Soil quality has been defined as the capacity to sustain biological productivity and maintain environmental quality. Mowing and fertilization may affect ecosystem function through numerous soil properties, especially in semiarid grasslands where plant growth is limited by nutrient availabil...
Saleh Ahmed Shahriar, Nazrul Islam, Charles Ng Wai Chun, Parwinder Kaur et al.
The fungal species belonging to the genus Trichoderma has been globally recognized as a potential candidate of biofertilizer and biocontrol agent to prevent devastating soil-borne fungal pathogens and enhance growth and productivity of agricultural crops. The antagonistic activity of Trichoderma to ...