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Endophytic Actinobacteria for Sustainable Agricultural Applications

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Endophytes: Crop Productivity and Protection

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity ((SDEB,volume 16))

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Endophytic actinobacteria have the capacity to establish intimate associations with plants and colonize their inner tissues without causing apparent disease symptoms. They can protect plants by producing bioactive compounds that act as plant growth promoters or biological control agents and, in return, obtain nutrition and protection from the host plant. The application of endophytic actinobacteria in agriculture has attracted increasing attention. We address isolation and identification methods and the occurrence and diversity of endophytic actinobacteria in agricultural crops. Attention is given to the roles of endophytic actinobacteria in plant growth and development and health promotion for sustainable agriculture is discussed.

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M.F. Carvalho acknowledges Investigator FCT program supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Fundo Social Europeu (FSE) and Programa Operacional Potencial Humano. R.S. Oliveira and Y. Ma thank the support of FCT through the research grants SFRH/BPD/85008/2012 and SFRH/BPD/76028/2011, FSE and Programa Operacional do Capital Humano (POCH). This work was partly financed by Portuguese national funds through Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI), Project 3599 – Promover a Produção Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e a Constituição de Redes Temáticas (3599-PPCDT) and Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) under Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016801 and by FCT under Project PTDC/AGR-TEC/1140/2014.

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Carvalho, M.F., Ma, Y., Oliveira, R.S., Freitas, H. (2017). Endophytic Actinobacteria for Sustainable Agricultural Applications. In: Maheshwari, D., Annapurna, K. (eds) Endophytes: Crop Productivity and Protection. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66544-3_8

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