SOIL BACTERIA AND GROWTH-PROMOTING SUBSTANCES

Gelatin as a Source of Growth-Promoting Substances for Bacteria.

In the course of studies on the nutritional requirements of some of the more exacting bacteria it wase found that the addition of certain brands of gelatin to a simplified synthetic medium caused growth of a number of bacteria which were unable to develop in the same medium without the gelatin. The use of gelatin in amounts ordinarily employed for culture media produced results which were compa...

Growth-promoting substances from bacteriological filter pads.

Tumor Formation by Attenuated Crown-Gall Bacteria in the Presence of Growth-Promoting Substances.

Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria: Mechanisms and Applications

The worldwide increases in both environmental damage and human population pressure have the unfortunate consequence that global food production may soon become insufficient to feed all of the world's people. It is therefore essential that agricultural productivity be significantly increased within the next few decades. To this end, agricultural practice is moving toward a more sustainable and e...

Population growth of a rhabditid nematode on plant growth promoting bacteria from potato tubers and rhizosphere soil.

Nine bacterial isolates from the rhizosphere and(or) tubers of potato (Solanum tuberosum cv. Kennebec) at a field site on Prince Edward Island were assessed as food sources for a bacteria-feeding nematode species tentatively identified as Diplogaster lheritieri. This species was the most common rhabditid nematode recovered from soil around potato roots at the same site. In laboratory feeding tr...