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A Drought Resistance-Promoting Microbiome Is Selected by Root System under Desert Farming

Ramona Marasco, Eleonora Rolli, Besma Ettoumi, Gianpiero Vigani, Francesca Mapelli, Sara Borin, A.F. Abou-Hadid, Usama Elbehairy, C. Sorlini, Ameur Chérif,

PLoS ONE · 2012 · 478 citations · 65 references

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Crop cultivation provides critical ecosystem services in arid lands with the plant root system acting as a "resource island" able to attract and select microbial communities endowed with multiple PGP traits that sustain plant development under water limiting conditions.

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