A plant–microbe research article describing experiments on a soil bacterium that may help barley cope with heavy metal stress; readers will find methods and implications for bioinoculant use.
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- Crop productivity and food security are severely threatened worldwide by heavy metal contamination of agricultural soils
- Barley grains under heavy metal stress showed an 86% germination rate when inoculated with strain MD55 was added