PREFACE
Part 1. Ecology, diversity, and evolution of Plant Probiotic Microorganisms (PPM)
1. Identification of human pathogenic bacteria in plant roots by using MALDI-TOF MS methodology
2. Rhizobial biofertilizers for ornamental plants
3. Analysis of the PGPB potential of bacterial endophytes associated to maize
4. Identification of rhizobial strains nodulating Pisum sativum in Northern Spain soils by MALDI-TOF
MS (matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry) analysis
5. Analysis of cultivable endophytic bacteria in roots of maize in a soil from León province in
mainland Spain
Part II. Genetics, genomics and proteomics of PPM and their associated plants
6. Molecular determinants of negative regulation of the Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens transcription
factor FixK2
7. MALDI-TOF MS (matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry)
analysis of rhizobia nodulating Phaseolus vulgaris in different soils
Part III. Plant-microorganisms interactions
8. Optimization of the immunodetection of tagged-LYK3 Nod-factor receptor in Medicago truncatula
root extracts
9. Functional Characterization of a Chitinase Class III (CgCHI3) and a Glutathione S-transferase
CCgGST) involved in Casuarina glauca-Frankia symbiosis
10.Effective colonization of spinach root-surface by Rhizobium
11.Interactions between Micromonospora and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
12.Different effects on Vigna unguiculata plants after the inoculation with strains from two
Bradyrhizobium symbiovars
Part IV. Physiology and biochemistry of beneficial microorganisms and associated plants 150<
13.Salt stress tolerance in Casuarina glauca and its relation with nitrogen-fixing Frankia bacteria
Part V. Inoculants for agriculture and environmental science
14.Induced Systemic Resistance could explain the reduction in the incidence of black sigatoka
(Mycosphaerella fijiensis) in banana plants inoculated with bacteria isolated from banana tree
roots in the Dominican Republic
15.Microbial inoculants with autochthonous bacteria for biodiverse legume pastures in Portuguese
agro-forestry ecosystems
16.Improving legume-rhizobium symbiosis for copper phytostabilization through genetic
manipulation of both symbionts
17.Symbiotic and agronomic characterization of Bradyrhizobial strains nodulating cowpea in
Northern Peru
18.Rhizobium as potential biofertilizer of Eruca sativa
19.Biocontrol of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. phaseoli and Phytophthora capsici with autochthonous
endophytes in common bean and pepper in Castilla y León (Spain)
20.Disease control and plant growth promotion (PGP) of selected bacterial strains in Phaseolus
vulgaris