Regulatory mechanisms of plant rhizobacteria on plants to the adaptation of adverse agroclimatic variables

Front Plant Sci. 2024 May 23:15:1377793. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1377793. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

The mutualistic plant rhizobacteria which improve plant development and productivity are known as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). It is more significant due to their ability to help the plants in different ways. The main physiological responses, such as malondialdehyde, membrane stability index, relative leaf water content, photosynthetic leaf gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence efficiency of photosystem-II, and photosynthetic pigments are observed in plants during unfavorable environmental conditions. Plant rhizobacteria are one of the more crucial chemical messengers that mediate plant development in response to stressed conditions. The interaction of plant rhizobacteria with essential plant nutrition can enhance the agricultural sustainability of various plant genotypes or cultivars. Rhizobacterial inoculated plants induce biochemical variations resulting in increased stress resistance efficiency, defined as induced systemic resistance. Omic strategies revealed plant rhizobacteria inoculation caused the upregulation of stress-responsive genes-numerous recent approaches have been developed to protect plants from unfavorable environmental threats. The plant microbes and compounds they secrete constitute valuable biostimulants and play significant roles in regulating plant stress mechanisms. The present review summarized the recent developments in the functional characteristics and action mechanisms of plant rhizobacteria in sustaining the development and production of plants under unfavorable environmental conditions, with special attention on plant rhizobacteria-mediated physiological and molecular responses associated with stress-induced responses.

Keywords: adverse agroclimatic conditions; agricultural sustainability; physiological and omic aspects; plant hormones; plant responses; rhizobacteria.

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Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was financially supported by the Guangxi Key R & D Program (Guike AB24010140), Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (2021GXNSFAA220022; 2023GXNSFAA026459; 2023GXNSFAA026460), Guangxi Innovation Teams of Modern Agriculture Technology (nycytxgxcxtd-2021–03), Guangxi Characteristic Crop Experimental Station (GTS2022022), National Key Research and Development Project (2022YFD2301102–07), The National Natural Science Foundation of China (31760415; 32060468), Fund of Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2021YT011), Science and Technology Major Project of Guangxi (Guike AA22117002–1), Fundamental Research Fund of Guangxi Academy of Agriculture Sciences (2023YM55) and Key Research and Development Program of Nanning (20232060).