The present invention relates to methods and compositions for transforming soybean, corn, cotton, or canola explants using spectinomycin as a selective agent for transformation of the explants. The method may further comprise treatment of the explants with cytokinin during the transformation and regeneration process.

Described herein are eco-friendly formulations and methods for providing such formulations to plants. The formulations include mixtures of microbial isolates. In particular, numerous bacterial and fungal strains were isolated from a variety of soil types, from rhizospheres and from root nodules of leguminous plants, in designed combinations, for providing plant growth and plant productivity enhancing formulations. These specifically designed polymicrobial formulations provide protection against plant pathogens, lower the need for nitrogen containing fertilizers, solubilize minerals, protect plants against pathogens, and make available to the plant valuable nutrients, such as phosphate, thus reducing and eliminating the need for using chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.

According to the present invention new isolates of bacterial strains have been shown to possess unique properties. These bacterial strains are plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium (PGPR), posses an enhanced competitive advantage at colonizing leguminous plants, and enhance the overall performance of leguminous plant growth. Further still, the present invention discloses a novel method for screening and selecting bacterial strains having the aforementioned beneficial characteristics.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for transforming soybean, corn. cotton, or canola explants using spectinomycin as a selective agent for transformation of the explants. The method may further comprise treatment of the explants with cytokinin during the transformation and regeneration process.

There is provided a synthetic composition including: (a) bacterial consortium including: (i) at least three bacterial species belonging to the genus Bacillus; and (ii) at least three bacterial species belonging to the genus Lacticaseibacillus; and (b) an acceptable carrier, as well as a method of using same, such as for preventing or treating a fungal infection in a plant or a plant part.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising: an isolated endophyte, wherein the endophyte is a strain of Rhizobium metallidurans, and an adjuvant and wherein the Rhizobium metallidurans strain has Accession Number DSM34351.

The current invention relates to a purified bacterial strain for improving plant growth and/or yield. The invention also relates to a bacterial population, a microbial active ingredient, an agriculturally active ingredient, a synthetic composition, and methods for improving plant growth and/or yield by improving a trait of agronomic importance in a plant and by conferring resistance to a plant pathogen infection.