A5058784666- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
2022-2024
Kenya Wildlife Service
2022-2024
Vascular shrubs growing along the draw-down zones of saline lakes must develop adaptive mechanisms to cope with high salinity, erratic environmental conditions, and other biotic abiotic stresses. Microbial endophytes from plants in these unique environments harbor diverse metabolic genetic profiles that play an important role plant growth, health, survival under stressful conditions. A variety bacterial have been isolated salt tolerant but their potential applications agriculture not fully...
Abstract To meet the food and feed demands of growing population, global production needs to double by 2050. Climate change-induced challenges crops, especially soil salinization, remain a major threat production. We hypothesize that endophytic fungi isolated from salt-adapted host plants can confer salinity stress tolerance salt-sensitive crops. Therefore, we fungal endophytes shrubs along shores saline alkaline Lake Magadi evaluated their ability induce in tomato seeds seedlings. Of 60...