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Funding support was provided from USDA-NIFA Multistate Project W4147, the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, and from a Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit CESU G16AC00433 grant between Rutgers University and the U.S. Geological Survey for control of invasive Phragmites australis , and Rey Juan Carlos University, grant DR & Iacute;ADES-2020/00006/009. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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Endophytic bacteria in grass crop growth promotion and biostimulation

Publicated to:Grass Research. 1 0005- - 2021-01-01 1(), DOI: 10.48130/GR-2021-0005

Authors: White, James F; Chang, Xiaoqian; Kingsley, Kathryn L; Zhang, Qiuwei; Chiaranunt, Peerapol; Micci, April; Velazquez, Fernando; Elmore, Matthew; Crane, Sharron; Li, Shanjia; Lu, Jiaxin; Molina, Maria Carmen; Gonzalez-Benitez, Natalia; Beltran-Garcia, Miguel J; Kowalski, Kurt P

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AUTONOMOUS UNIV GUADALAJARA, Dept Biotechnol & Environm Sci, GUADALAJARA 45140, Mexico - Author
King Juan Carlos Univ, Dept Biol Geol Appl Phys & Inorgan Chem, Madrid 28032, Spain - Author
Lanzhou Univ Technol, Dept Bioengn, Lanzhou 730050, Peoples R China - Author
Nanjing Agr Univ, Coll Agrograssland Sci, Nanjing 210095, Peoples R China - Author
Rutgers State Univ, Dept Biochem & Microbiol, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA - Author
Rutgers State Univ, Dept Plant Biol, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA - Author
US Geol Survey, Great Lakes Sci Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 USA - Author
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Abstract

Plants naturally carry microbes on seeds and within seeds that may facilitate development and early survival of seedlings. Some crops have lost seed-vectored microbes in the process of domestication or during seed storage and seed treatment. Biostimulant microbes from wild plants were used by pre-modern cultures to re-acquire beneficial seed microbes. Today some companies have developed or are developing the use of microbes obtained from soils or plant sources to stimulate plant development and growth. Many of these biostimulant microbes are endophytic in plants. Biostimulant products also include humic substances, which appear to function as signal molecules in plants, triggering increased internalization of soil microbes into root cells and tissues. In addition, protein coatings on seeds fuel the growth of seed surface-vectored microbes, increasing microbial activity around and within roots. In this article, we provide evidence of the endophytic nature of many biostimulant microbes, and suggest that many of the beneficial effects of microbial biostimulants stem from their action as endophytes or as participants or stimulants of rhizophagy cycle activity.

Keywords

Arsenic accumulationCrop endophyte paradoxDiseaseEndophytesHumic substancesMetalNitrogen fixationPlantRhizophagy cycle

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Grass Research, Q4 Agency Scopus (SJR), its regional focus and specialization in , give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.18, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-08-02, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 16
  • Scopus: 13

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 31.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 32 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 0.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: China; Mexico; United States of America.