The roles of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in sustainable vegetable production in Ethiopia

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 1 Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria used as biofertilizer and biocontrol agent

PGPR	Host plant	Pathogen/pest	PGPR traits	References
Pseudomonas isolates	Solanum lycopersicum	Not tested	Phosphate solubilization, improved tomato growth	Fenta and Assefa [45]
Bacillus cereus BC1AW and Pseudomonas. putida PP3WT	Solanum lycopersicum	Ralstonia solanacearum	Phosphate solubilization, production of siderophore, HCN and IAA, reduce bacterial wilt incidence, increased dry weight of tomato	Kurabachew and Wydra [14]
Pseudomonas fluorescens	Solanum tuberosum	Ralstonia solanacearum	Production of siderophore, reduced bacterial wilt incidence and improve potato growth	Kuarabachew et al. [16]
Pseudomonas fluorescent APF1 and Bacillus subtilis B2G	Solanum lycopersicum	Ralstonia solanacearum	Increased fresh and dry weight	Lemessa and Zeller [13]
Bacillus and Trichoderma isolates	Capsicum annuum	Colletotrichum capsici	Reduce pepper anthracnose disease	Messele et al. [15]
Trichoderma viride-ES1 and Pseudomonas fluorescens-Bak150	Solanum tuberosum	Phytophthora infestans	Suppression of early blight disease and increased yield of potato	Zegeye et al. [70]
Bacillus thuringiensis	Solanum lycopersicum	Tuta absoluta	Decreased in egg hatching and adult emergence	Youssef and Hassan [71]
Bacillus firmus	Solanum lycopersicum	Meloidogyne incognita	Reduced nematode populations, gall formation and number of eggs, increased biomass of tomato	Terefe et al. [72]