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Methods in Rhizosphere Biology Research pp 105–132Cite as

Exploitation of Rhizosphere Microbiome Services

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The rhizosphere is a soil hot spot where, due to a tight plant-bacteria interaction, plants recruit a beneficial microbiome, enhancing its density and activity. Rhizosphere microbial communities have the potential to provide several services, and their management and “engineering” can be exploited to set up agro-environmental biotechnologies. In this chapter, after a brief overview of the array of services that we can obtain from rhizosphere beneficial microbiome, two case studies are presented: (i) the exploitation of plant growth-promoting bacteria to increase plant tolerance to drought, potentially able to improve crop yield in arid and semiarid lands, and (ii) the exploitation of plant biostimulation effects over degrading microbial populations in the rhizosphere, sustaining phyto-rhizoremediation approaches in PCB-contaminated soils. In each case study, experimental settings, in vitro and in vivo tests, and the result evaluation and modeling are reported together with a discussion of the critical issues.

Valentina Riva and Elisa Terzaghi are contributed equally to the work.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the EU Horizon 2020 MADFORWATER project (GA No. 688320, www.madforwater.eu) and the collaboration of the “Caffaro Working Group”: Stefano Armiraglio, Simone Anelli, Vanna M. Sale, and Paolo Nastasio and the funding agency Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste (ERSAF). DSAT of University of Insubria is also acknowledged for funding part of ET’s salary.

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    Valentina Riva, Lorenzo Vergani, Francesca Mapelli & Sara Borin

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    Elisa Terzaghi, Elisabetta Zanardini, Cristiana Morosini & Antonio Di Guardo

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Riva, V. et al. (2019). Exploitation of Rhizosphere Microbiome Services. In: Reinhardt, D., Sharma, A. (eds) Methods in Rhizosphere Biology Research. Rhizosphere Biology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5767-1_7

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