Abstract
The use of plant growth-promoting bacteria as bioinoculants is a powerful tool to increase crop yield and quality and to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) from fertilizers in plants. This study aimed to bioprospecting a native bacterial consortium (Bacillus cabrialesii subsp. cabrialesii TE3T, Priestia megaterium TRQ8, and Bacillus paralicheniformis TRQ65), through bioinformatic analysis, and to quantify the impact of its inoculation on NUE (measured through 15N-isotopic techniques), grain yield, and grain quality of durum wheat variety CIRNO C2008 grown under three doses of urea (0, 120, and 240 kg N ha−1) during two consecutive agricultural cycles in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico. The inoculation of the bacterial consortium (BC) to the wheat crop, at a total N concentration of 123-225 kg N ha−1 increased crop productivity and maintained grain quality, resulting in a yield increase of 1.1 ton ha−1 (6.0 vs. 7.1 ton ha−1, 0 kg N ha−1 added, 123 kg N ha−1 in the soil) and of 2.0 ton ha−1 (5.9 vs. 7.9 ton ha−1, 120 kg N ha−1 added, 104 kg N ha−1 in the soil) compared to the uninoculated controls at the same doses of N. The genomic bioinformatic analysis of the studied strains showed a great number of biofertilization-related genes regarding N and Fe acquisition, P assimilation, CO2 fixation, Fe, P, and K solubilization, with important roles in agroecosystems, as well as genes related to the production of siderophores and stress response. A positive effect of the BC on NUE at the studied initial N content (123 and 104 kg N ha−1) was not observed. Nevertheless, increases of 14% and 12.5% on NUE (whole plant) were observed when 120 kg N ha−1 was applied compared to when wheat was fully fertilized (240 kg N ha−1). This work represents a link between bioinformatic approaches of a native bacterial inoculant and the quantification of its impact on durum wheat.
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Claim · model-written summary
Consortium inoculation raised wheat yield by 1.1 ton ha−1 without added N.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- inoculation of the bacterial consortium (BC)e0
- Interactor
- bacterial consortiume0symbiont
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 1.1 ton ha−1e0
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Verbatim
e0“The inoculation of the bacterial consortium (BC) to the wheat crop, at a total N concentration of 123-225 kg N ha−1 increased crop productivity and maintained grain quality, resulting in a yield increase of 1.1 ton ha−1 (6.0 vs. 7.1 ton ha−1, 0 kg N ha−1 added, 123 kg N ha−1 in the soil)”
Claim · model-written summary
Consortium inoculation raised wheat yield by 2.0 ton ha−1 with 120 kg N ha−1 added.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0
- Treatment
- inoculation of the bacterial consortium (BC)e0
- Interactor
- bacterial consortiume0symbiont
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 2.0 ton ha−1e0
- Comparator
- uninoculated controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The inoculation of the bacterial consortium (BC) to the wheat crop, at a total N concentration of 123-225 kg N ha−1 increased crop productivity and maintained grain quality, resulting in a yield increase of 1.1 ton ha−1 (6.0 vs. 7.1 ton ha−1, 0 kg N ha−1 added, 123 kg N ha−1 in the soil) and of 2.0 ton ha−1 (5.9 vs. 7.9 ton ha−1, 120 kg N ha−1 added, 104 kg N ha−1 in the soil) compared to the uninoculated controls at the same doses of N.”
Claim · model-written summary
Inoculation maintained wheat grain quality.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0
- Treatment
- inoculation of the bacterial consortium (BC)e0
- Interactor
- bacterial consortiume0symbiont
- Outcome
- grain qualitye0
- Direction
- maintainede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The inoculation of the bacterial consortium (BC) to the wheat crop, at a total N concentration of 123-225 kg N ha−1 increased crop productivity and maintained grain quality”
Claim · model-written summary
The bacterial strains had genes for nutrient acquisition, assimilation, fixation and solubilization, siderophores and stress response.
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“The genomic bioinformatic analysis of the studied strains showed a great number of biofertilization-related genes regarding N and Fe acquisition, P assimilation, CO2 fixation, Fe, P, and K solubilization, with important roles in agroecosystems, as well as genes related to the production of siderophores and stress response.”
Claim · model-written summary
A positive consortium effect on NUE at initial N levels of 123 and 104 kg N ha−1 was not observed.
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Verbatim
e0“A positive effect of the BC on NUE at the studied initial N content (123 and 104 kg N ha−1) was not observed.”
Claim · model-written summary
With 120 kg N ha−1 rather than full fertilization, whole plant NUE increased by 14%.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0
- Treatment
- 120 kg N ha−1e0
- Outcome
- NUE (whole plant)e0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 14%e0
- Comparator
- 240 kg N ha−1e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increases of 14% and 12.5% on NUE (whole plant) were observed when 120 kg N ha−1 was applied compared to when wheat was fully fertilized (240 kg N ha−1).”
Claim · model-written summary
With 120 kg N ha−1 rather than full fertilization, whole plant NUE increased by 12.5%.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0
- Treatment
- 120 kg N ha−1e0
- Outcome
- NUE (whole plant)e0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 12.5%e0
- Comparator
- 240 kg N ha−1e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increases of 14% and 12.5% on NUE (whole plant) were observed when 120 kg N ha−1 was applied compared to when wheat was fully fertilized (240 kg N ha−1).”
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