Enhancing water stress tolerance improves fitness in biological control strains of Lactobacillus plantarum in plant environments

Funding was provided by Spain MINECO (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) (AGL2012-39880-C02-01 and AGL2015-69876-C2-1-R) and FEDER of the European Union and in part by project FP7-KBBE.2013.1.2-04 613678 DROPSA of the European Union. N. Daranas was recipient of a research grant 2015 FI_B00515 (Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca, Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya; ESF, EU). The research group is accredited by SGR 2014-697 and TECNIO net from Catalonia