Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Biology - Botany, grade: 4.00, Zhejiang University Of Science and Technology, course: College of Agriculture & Biotechnology, language: English, abstract: Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are free-living, soil-borne bacteria that colonize the rhizosphere and, when applied to crops, enhance the growth of plants, protect fro...