Dr. Yoav Bashan
Bacterial inoculants and mixed inoculants to enhance plant
growth (applied studies)
Version January 2008
Goal: Invent practical, advanced inoculants (a.k.a “bio-fertilizers”) for improving growth of agricultural and forest plants.
Bacterial inoculant made of alginate beads mixed with
wheat seeds. |
For More PDF files of earlier papers go to: Environmental Microbiology
Website.
External Collaborators
Most relevant publications in the last 5 years:
Bashan, Y. 1998. Inoculants of plant growth-promoting bacteria
for use in agriculture.
Biotechnology Advances 16: 729-770.
Bashan, Y. and Gonzalez, L.E. 1999. Long-term survival of the
plant-growth-promoting bacteria Azospirillum brasilense and
Pseudomonas fluorescens in dry alginate inoculant.
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 51
: 262-266. Rojas, A., Holguin, G., Glick, B.R. and Bashan, Y. 2001. Synergism
between Phyllobacterium sp. (N2-fixer) and
Bacillus licheniformis (P-solubilizer), both from a semiarid
mangrove rhizosphere.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology 35 :181-187
Bashan, Y., Hernandez, J.P., Leyva, L.A. and Bacilio, M. 2002. Alginate
microbeads as inoculant carrier for plant growth-promoting bacteria.
Biology and Fertility of Soils 35: 359-368. - Yabur, R., Bashan Y., Hernández-Carmona G. 2007. Alginate from the macroalgae
Sargassum sinicola as a novel source for microbial immobilization material in wastewater treatment and plant growth
promotion. Journal of Applied Phycology 19: 43-53.
Alginate beads containing the Plant growth-promotign bacteria Azospirillum brasilense Cd. above beads from Macrocystis pyrifera below beads from Sargassum sinicola (Inoculant for agriculture)
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Different beads of alginate from various sources. (from left to rigth: control of Macrocystis pyrifera, control of Sargassum sinicola, immobilized of Macrocystis pyrifera (Chlorella), immobilized of Sargassum sinicola (Chlorella), co-immobilized of Macrocystis pyrifera (Chlorella with Azospirillum), co-immobilized of Sargassum sinicola. (Chlorella with Azospirillum)) |
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