“…Studies have shown the ability of benefic microorganisms to promote plant development, specifically Pseudomonas in wheat and soybean (Afzal et al, 2010;Karimzadeh et al, 2020;Shirmohammadi et al, 2020), Bacillus strains on millet, corn and oil palm (Ribeiro et al, 2018;Lima et al, 2020, Sousa et al, 2020, Trichoderma in soybean (Bononi et al, 2020), arbuscular mycorrhiza in rice, corn and tomato (Zhang et al, 2016;Saia et al, 2020), among others. Also, these microorganisms, in most cases, are of the "multifunctional" type and can bring benefits to plants through multiple mechanisms of direct and indirect stimulation (Sobral et al, 2018;Silva et al, 2020), with the capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen (Döbereiner, 1997), potassium solubilization (Basak et al, 2022), siderophore production (Yadav et al, 2020) and mitigation of biotic and abiotic stresses (Leite et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2020;Oliveira et al, 2021).…”