Sultana, Shahnaz and Paul, Sumonta C. and Parveen, Samia and Alam, Saiful and Rahman, Naziza and Jannat, Bushra and Hoque, Sirajul and Rahman, Mohammad Tariqur and Karim, Muhammad Manjurul (2020) Isolation and identification of salt-tolerant plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria and their application for rice cultivation under salt stress. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 66 (2). pp. 144-160. ISSN 0008-4166, DOI https://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2019-0323.
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Abstract
Growth and productivity of rice are negatively affected by soil salinity. However, some salt-tolerant rhizosphere-inhabiting bacteria can improve salt resistance of plants, thereby augmenting plant growth and production. Here, we isolated a total of 53 plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) from saline and nonsaline areas in Bangladesh where electrical conductivity was measured as >7.45 and <1.80 dS/m, respectively. Bacteria isolated from saline areas were able to grow in a salt concentration of up to 2.60 mol/L, contrary to the isolates collected from non-saline areas that did not survive beyond 854 mmol/L. Among the salt-tolerant isolates, Bacillus aryabhattai, Achromobacter denitrificans, and Ochrobactrum intermedium, identified by comparing respective sequences of 16S rRNA using the NCBI GenBank, exhibited a higher amount of atmospheric nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilization, and indoleacetic acid production at 200 mmol/L salt stress. Salt-tolerant isolates exhibited greater resistance to heavy metals and antibiotics, which could be due to the production of an exopolysaccharide layer outside the cell surface. Oryza sativa L. fertilized with B. aryabhattai MS3 and grown under 200 mmol/L salt stress was found to be favoured by enhanced expression of a set of at least four salt-responsive plant genes: BZ8, SOS1, GIG, and NHX1. Fertilization of rice with osmoprotectant-producing PGPR, therefore, could be a climate-change-preparedness strategy for coastal agriculture.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Science and Technology (39.00.000.09.02.69.16-17/ES289/303, dated 15 January 2017) and the Ministry of Education (37.20.0000.004.033.020.2016.7725,dated 11 May 2017) Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | agriculture; Bangladesh; PGPR; salinity; salt tolerance |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Dentistry |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ahmad Azwan Azman |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2020 03:22 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2020 03:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/24022 |
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