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Title: | Exploiting plant-microbe partnerships to improve biomass production and remediation | Authors: | WEYENS, Nele VAN DER LELIE, Daniel Taghavi, Safiyh Newman, Lee VANGRONSVELD, Jaco |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON | Source: | TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, 27(10). p. 591-598 | Abstract: | Although many plant-associated bacteria have beneficial effects on their host, their importance during plant growth and development is still underestimated. A better understanding of their plant growth-promoting mechanisms could be exploited for sustainable growth of food and feed crops, biomass for biofuel production and feedstocks for industrial processes. Such plant growth-promoting mechanisms might facilitate higher production of energy crops in a more sustainable manner, even on marginal land, and thus contribute to avoiding conflicts between food and energy production. Furthermore, because many bacteria show a natural capacity to cope with contaminants, they could be exploited to improve the efficiency of phytoremediation or to protect the food chain by reducing levels of agro-chemicals in food crops. | Notes: | [Weyens, Nele; Vangronsveld, Jaco] Hasselt Univ, Dept Environm Biol, CMK, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [van der Lelie, Daniel; Taghavi, Safiyh; Newman, Lee] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Biol, Upton, NY 11973 USA. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/9989 | ISSN: | 0167-7799 | e-ISSN: | 1879-3096 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.tibtech.2009.07.006 | ISI #: | 000270533300006 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2010 |
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