• Genome-based reclassification of Azospirillum brasilense Az39 as the type strain of Azospirillum argentinense sp. nov. 

      dos Santos Ferreira, Natália; Coniglio, Nayla Anahí; Puente, Mariana Laura; Sant’Anna, Fernando Hayashi; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Garcia, Julia Elena; Molina, Romina Micaela; Nievas, Sofía; Volpiano, Camila Gazolla; Ambrosini, Adriana; Passaglia, Luciane Maria Pereira; Pedraza, Raúl Osvaldo; Reis, Veronica Massena; Zilli, Jerri Edson; Cassan, Fabricio Dario (Microbiology Society, 2022-08-01)
      Strain Az39T of Azospirillum is a diazotrophic plant growth-promoting bacterium isolated in 1982 from the roots of wheat plants growing in Marcos Juárez, Córdoba, Argentina. It produces indole-3- acetic acid in the presence ...
    • Localization and survival of Azospirillum brasilense Az39 in soybean leaves 

      Puente, Mariana Laura; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Panepucci, Marina Gabriela; Sabio Y Garcia, Julia Veronica; García, Julia Elena; Criado, María Victoria; Molina, Romina Micaela; Cassán, Fabricio Dario (Wiley, 2021-05)
      In recent years, foliar inoculation has gained acceptance among the available methods to deliver plant beneficial micro-organisms to crops under field conditions. Colonization efficiency by such micro-organisms largely ...
    • Subfunctionalization probably drives the emergence of plant growth‑promoting genes 

      Frare, Romina Alejandra; Mozzicafreddo, Matteo; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Fussoni, Nerina Belen; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Springer, 2022-07)
      The duplication and divergence of stress-related genes might help microbes adapt to different environments. However, little is known about this type of subfunctionalization process in microbes. We here examined the evolution ...
    • The benefits of foliar inoculation with Azospirillum brasilense in soybean are explained by an auxin signaling model 

      Puente, Mariana Laura; Gualpa, Jose Luis; López, Gastón A.; Molina, Romina M.; Carletti, Susana; Cassán, Fabricio D. (2018-09)
      Azospirillum sp. is one of the most studied genera of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). The ability of Azospirillum sp. to promote plant growth has been associated with its ability to produce several phytohormones, ...