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Beneficial Interactions of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizosphere Microorganisms

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Bioaugmentation, Biostimulation and Biocontrol

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 108))

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The symbiotic association of Rhizobium and the legumes has been the subject of extensive scientific research and scientists around the world are trying to increase the efficiency of symbiosis through genetic manipulation of the host and the bacterium to move this Rhizobium infectivity to other non-legumes as well. In the recent past, indiscriminate use of excessive fertilizers and pesticides for maximum crop production has resulted in a nutrient-sufficient rhizosphere environment leading to less-defensive root environment for pathogens. Such environment has also resulted in changed rhizosphere activity by which the associative plant growth-promoting bacteria remain free in the rhizosphere and the pathogens by virtue of their host dependence interact more frequently and freely with the host roots. Rhizosphere bacteria such as Pseudomonas sp. and Bacillus sp. are involved in such type of interactions and may lead to improvements in the yields of various legumes and non-legumes.

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Parmar, N., Dufresne, J. (2011). Beneficial Interactions of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizosphere Microorganisms. In: Singh, A., Parmar, N., Kuhad, R. (eds) Bioaugmentation, Biostimulation and Biocontrol. Soil Biology, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19769-7_2

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