de la Torre-Hernández M. E., Salinas-Virgen L. I., Aguirre-Garrido J. F., Fernández-González A. J., Martínez-Abarca F., Montiel-Lugo D., Ramírez-Saad H. C., Composition, Structure, and PGPR Traits of the Rhizospheric Bacterial Communities Associated With Wild and Cultivated Echinocactus platyacanthus and Neobuxbaumia polylopha, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020, 11:1424, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01424
Sequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments describes rhizosphere bacterial communities of two cacti growing naturally and in cultivation. Isolates from Echinocactus platyacanthus were tested on culture media for traits including phosphate solubilisation, siderophores and inhibition of fungal growth.