Improving crop growth by enhancing 5-aminolevulinic acid production by plant-growth-promoting-bacteriaTools Farah, Farah (2020) Improving crop growth by enhancing 5-aminolevulinic acid production by plant-growth-promoting-bacteria. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractThere is an increasing need to produce crops sustainably and one way of doing that is to use plant growth promoters and/or natural products which will encourage crop growth whilst maintaining soil health. A nonprotein amino acid called 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) has been shown to enhance plant growth when used at low concentrations, although it causes oxidative stress at high doses. ALA is used in medicine and in food production and whilst ALA can be synthesised chemically, the expense of doing so is driving research into developing microbial production systems primarily utilising photosynthetic bacteria.
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