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Plants Probiotics as a Tool to Produce Highly Functional Fruits

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Bioactive Molecules in Food

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Abstract

Plant probiotics are bacteria capable of improving crop yields reducing or even eliminating chemical fertilizers. During the last years, several studies show that many of these bacteria can improve not just production, but also food quality, through the increase of some nutrients as well as some plant bioactive compounds, which are beneficial to human health. This chapter compiles some of the recent research focused on the capabilities of several bacterial plant probiotics to enhance the production of more functional foods, and therefore benefiting our health.

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The authors are grateful for the funding received by the Regional Government of Castile and Leon and the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness (JCyL SA169U14 and MINECO; AGL2015-70510-R). AJG is funded by the FPU predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Government. JDFF is funded by the University of Salamanca with a predoctoral fellowship. PGF receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 750795.

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  1. Microbiology and Genetics Department, University of Salamanca, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Alejandro Jiménez-Gómez, José David Flores-Félix & Raúl Rivas

  2. Spanish-Portuguese Institute for Agricultural Research (CIALE), Salamanca, Spain

    Alejandro Jiménez-Gómez, José David Flores-Félix & Raúl Rivas

  3. Institute of Microbiology ASCR,v.v.i, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20, Prague, Czech Republic

    Paula García-Fraile

  4. Associated R&D Unit, USAL-CSIC (IRNASA), Salamanca, Spain

    Raúl Rivas

  5. Lab 210-213, Edificio Departamental de Biología, Microbiology and Genetics Department, University of Salamanca, Campus de Unamuno, Doctores de la Reina s/n, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Paula García-Fraile & Raúl Rivas

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Jiménez-Gómez, A., García-Fraile, P., Flores-Félix, J.D., Rivas, R. (2018). Plants Probiotics as a Tool to Produce Highly Functional Fruits. In: Mérillon, JM., Ramawat, K. (eds) Bioactive Molecules in Food. Reference Series in Phytochemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54528-8_8-1

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