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What Do We Know About the Publications Related with Azospirillum? A Metadata Analysis

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Azospirillum is one of the most successful plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) genera and it is considered a study model for plant–bacteria interactions. Because of that, a wide broad of topics has been boarded and discussed in a significant number of publications in the last four decades. Using the Scopus® database, we conducted a bibliographic search in order to analyze the number and type of publications, the authors responsible of these contributions, and the origin of the researchers, as well as the keywords and journals selected by the authors, among other related characteristics, with the aim to understand some less addressed details about the work done with Azospirillum worldwide since its discovery in 1925. Despite that the largest numbers of publications about this bacterium were obtained between the 1970 and 1980s, there is still a linear increase tendency in the number of published works. Understanding the mechanisms involved in the ability of these bacteria to promote growth in a wide broad of plant species under both laboratory and field conditions has been a preferential target for these published articles. This tendency could be considered a cause or consequence of the current increase in the number of commercial products formulated with Azospirillum around the world and a catalyzer for the increase of published articles along time.

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We thank Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET, Argentina), and Fondo Nacional para la Investigación Científico Tecnológica (FONCyT, Argentina).

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  1. Fabricio Cassán, Gastón López, Romina Molina and Verónica Mora contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal y de la Interacción Planta-microorganismo, Instituto de Investigaciones en Agrobiotecnología (INIAB-CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina

    Fabricio Cassán, Gastón López, Sofía Nievas, Anahí Coniglio, Daniela Torres, Florencia Donadio, Romina Molina & Verónica Mora

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Cassán, F., López, G., Nievas, S. et al. What Do We Know About the Publications Related with Azospirillum? A Metadata Analysis. Microb Ecol 81, 278–281 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01559-w

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