Prof. Bashan main field of research during the last 3 decades is the interactions among plant growth-promoting bacteria and plants in agricultural and environmental settings including restoration of degraded soils and water. In this context he restored several wetlands in Mexico to their original functionality and demonstrated restoration of eroded lands at the field levels.
Prof. Bashan published 371 scientific works of which 216 were published in peer-review journals with an impact factor (average impact factor of the last 10 years 3.1) and the rest are chapters in books and popular scientific publications (To June 2016). In addition, he published 22 comprehensive websites. Prof Bashan serves as an editor and editorial board member of 15 scientific journals from 7 countries, adhoc reviewer of additional 235 scientific journals from 42 countries and 28 funding agencies from 16 countries.