Abstract
Understanding plant microbes’ intimate relationship and search for beneficial microbes is a sustainable alternative to improve plant growth and yield under a wide range of biotic and abiotic stress conditions. More than 20% of the total global agricultural land is affected by salinity. High salinity challenges crop plants by affecting several metabolic pathways and decreasing plant growth and yield. Unlike chemical fertilizers and pesticides, endophytic microbes offer an eco-friendly approach to increasing crop yield via various metabolites during salinity stress. The objective of this study was to isolate and characterize endophytic halotolerant bacterial isolates from haloalkaliphytes, investigate their plant growth-promoting (PGP) properties and tolerance for various stress conditions. Sporobolus specatus (Vahr) Kunth and Cyperus laevigatus L. grass samples were collected from the shores of two Ethiopian soda lakes (Lakes Abijata, and Chitu, respectively). A total of 167 halotolerant endophytic bacterial isolates, that clustered into 21 ARDRA (Amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis) groups, affiliated to members of 11 bacterial genera, namely Halomonas, Agrobacterium, Exiguobacterium, Jonesia, Stenotrophomonas, Pseudomonas, Alishewanella, Kosakonia, Bacillus, Paracoccus and Pannonibacter, were identified based on 16S rRNA sequencing. Most of the strains were able to produce IAA (indole-3-acetic acid) and hydrogen cyanide, grow on a nitrogen-free medium and solubilize phosphate. In vitro tolerance tests reveal that isolates were tolerant to: 5.0–15% NaCl, up to 40% PEG 6000, temperatures up to 50 °C, and pH 5–11. These characteristics of the isolates indicate their potential PGP application under various plant stress conditions.
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Enquahone, S., van Marle, G. & Simachew, A. Plant growth-promoting characteristics of halotolerant endophytic bacteria isolated from Sporobolus specatus (Vahr) Kunth and Cyperus laevigatus L. of Ethiopian rift valley lakes. Arch Microbiol 204, 403 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-022-03021-6
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