P. Bonfante and A. Genre, “Mechanisms Underlying Beneficial Plant—Fungus Interactions in Mycorrhizal Symbiosis,” Nature Communications, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2010, pp. 1-11.

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Mutual Information Flow between Beneficial Microorganisms and the Roots of Host Plants Determined the Bio-Functions of Biofertilizers

  AUTHORS: Wenhao Xiang, Li Zhao, Xin Xu, Yonghua Qin, Guanghui Yu

  KEYWORDS: Biofertilizers; Host Plant Roots; Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR); Plant Growth-Promoting Fungi (PGPF); Signal Transduction

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol.3 No.8, August 31, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Modern agriculture is facing new challenges in which ecological and molecular approaches are being integrated to achieve higher crop yields while minimizing negative impacts on the environment. The application of biofertilzers could meet this requirement. Biofertilizer is a natural organic fertilizer that helps to provide all the nutrients required by the plants and helps to increase the quality of the soil with a natural microorganism environment. This paper reviewed the types of biofertilzers, the biological basic of biofertilizers in plant growth promotion. This paper also assayed the bidirectional information exchange between plant-microbes in rhizoshpere and the signal pathway of plant growth- promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and plant growth-promoting fungi (PGPF) in the course of plant infection. At last, the challenges of the application and the promising future of biofertilizers were also discussed.