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Fungal biopriming increases the resistance of wheat to abiotic stress

  • El-Sayed, Ashraf S.A. (Enzymology and Fungal Biotechnology Lab, Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University) ;
  • Dief, Hanan E. (Enzymology and Fungal Biotechnology Lab, Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University) ;
  • Hashem, ElSayed A. (Enzymology and Fungal Biotechnology Lab, Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University) ;
  • Desouky, Ahmed M. (STEM School) ;
  • Shah, Zamarud (Department of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Bannu) ;
  • Fawzan, Salwa (Enzymology and Fungal Biotechnology Lab, Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University)
  • Received : 2021.11.20
  • Accepted : 2021.12.21
  • Published : 2022.06.30
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Abstract

Increasing soil salinity is one of the global challenges that the agriculture sector in Egypt has been facing; 33% of the cultivated land in Egypt, which includes merely 3% of the entire land area, is already salinized. The present review sheds light on the role of fungal biopriming, a technique in which hydrated seeds are inoculated with beneficial fungal flora, in mitigating the deleterious influence of NaCl tension. Endophytic fungi were recognized to be able to interact with several plant species, markedly contributing to the mitigation of NaCl stress in these plants, such that some plants get impoverished to their absent associated microbes under stressful conditions.

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