Author(s)

Wenhao Xiang, Li Zhao, Xin Xu, Yonghua Qin, Guanghui Yu

College of Life Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China..

Modern agriculture is facing new challenges in which ecological and molecular approaches are being integrated to achieve higher crop yields while minimizing negative impacts on the environment. The application of biofertilzers could meet this requirement. Biofertilizer is a natural organic fertilizer that helps to provide all the nutrients required by the plants and helps to increase the quality of the soil with a natural microorganism environment. This paper reviewed the types of biofertilzers, the biological basic of biofertilizers in plant growth promotion. This paper also assayed the bidirectional information exchange between plant-microbes in rhizoshpere and the signal pathway of plant growth- promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and plant growth-promoting fungi (PGPF) in the course of plant infection. At last, the challenges of the application and the promising future of biofertilizers were also discussed.

Biofertilizers; Host Plant Roots; Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR); Plant Growth-Promoting Fungi (PGPF); Signal Transduction

W. Xiang, L. Zhao, X. Xu, Y. Qin and G. Yu, "Mutual Information Flow between Beneficial Microorganisms and the Roots of Host Plants Determined the Bio-Functions of Biofertilizers," American Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 8, 2012, pp. 1115-1120. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2012.38134.