Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture remains a focus for many researchers, in an effort to minimize environmental degradation and climate change. The use of plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPM) is a hopeful approach for enhancing plant growth and yield. However, the technology faces a number of challenge...
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| description | Sustainable agriculture remains a focus for many researchers, in an effort to minimize environmental degradation and climate change. The use of plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPM) is a hopeful approach for enhancing plant growth and yield. However, the technology faces a number of challenges, especially inconsistencies in the field. The discovery, that microbial derived compounds can independently enhance plant growth, could be a step toward minimizing shortfalls related to PGPM technology. This has led many researchers to engage in research activities involving such compounds. So far, the findings are promising as compounds have been reported to enhance plant growth under stressed and non-stressed conditions in a wide range of plant species. This review compiles current knowledge on microbial derived compounds, taking a reader through a summarized protocol of their isolation and identification, their relevance in present agricultural trends, current use and limitations, with a view to giving the reader a picture of where the technology has come from, and an insight into where it could head, with some suggestions regarding the probable best ways forward. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9b7c99e3e4254f508c5080d054ee5d152022-12-21T19:05:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2021-02-011210.3389/fmicb.2021.634807634807Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable AgricultureJudith NaamalaDonald L. SmithSustainable agriculture remains a focus for many researchers, in an effort to minimize environmental degradation and climate change. The use of plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPM) is a hopeful approach for enhancing plant growth and yield. However, the technology faces a number of challenges, especially inconsistencies in the field. The discovery, that microbial derived compounds can independently enhance plant growth, could be a step toward minimizing shortfalls related to PGPM technology. This has led many researchers to engage in research activities involving such compounds. So far, the findings are promising as compounds have been reported to enhance plant growth under stressed and non-stressed conditions in a wide range of plant species. This review compiles current knowledge on microbial derived compounds, taking a reader through a summarized protocol of their isolation and identification, their relevance in present agricultural trends, current use and limitations, with a view to giving the reader a picture of where the technology has come from, and an insight into where it could head, with some suggestions regarding the probable best ways forward.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.634807/fullplant growth promoting microorganismsmicrobe derived compoundssustainable agriculturephytomicrobiomestress |
| spellingShingle | Judith Naamala Donald L. Smith Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable Agriculture Frontiers in Microbiology plant growth promoting microorganisms microbe derived compounds sustainable agriculture phytomicrobiome stress |
| title | Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_full | Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_short | Microbial Derived Compounds, a Step Toward Enhancing Microbial Inoculants Technology for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_sort | microbial derived compounds a step toward enhancing microbial inoculants technology for sustainable agriculture |
| topic | plant growth promoting microorganisms microbe derived compounds sustainable agriculture phytomicrobiome stress |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.634807/full |
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