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Potassium-Solubilizing Microorganism in Evergreen Agriculture: An Overview

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Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture

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Increasing cost of the fertilizers with lesser nutrient use efficiency necessitates alternate means to fertilizers. Soil is a storehouse of nutrients and energy for living organisms under the soil-plant-microorganism system. These rhizospheric microorganisms are crucial components of sustainable agricultural ecosystems. They are involved in sustaining soil as well as crop productivity under organic matter decomposition, nutrient transformations, and biological nutrient cycling. The rhizospheric microorganisms regulate the nutrient flow in the soil through assimilating nutrients, producing biomass, and converting organically bound forms of nutrients. Soil microorganisms play a significant role in a number of chemical transformations of soils and thus, influence the availability of macro- and micronutrients. Use of plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPMs) helps in increasing yields in addition to conventional plant protection. The most important PGPMs are Azospirillum, Azotobacter, Bacillus subtilis, B. mucilaginosus, B. edaphicus, B. circulans, Paenibacillus spp., Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, potassium, phosphorous, zinc-solubilizing microorganisms, or SMART microbes; these are eco-friendly and environmentally safe. The rhizosphere is the important area of soil influenced by plant roots. It is composed of huge microbial populations that are somehow different from the rest of the soil population, generally denominated as the “rhizosphere effect.” The rhizosphere is the small region of soil that is immediately near to the root surface and also affected by root exudates.

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Authors are thankful to the Head of the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, for providing all the necessary facility to conduct this experiment. VSM is thankful to the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, for the fellowship during his Ph.D. work and SKM is thankful to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, and Government of India (GOI) for the junior research fellowship (JRF) during her study.

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Meena, V.S. et al. (2016). Potassium-Solubilizing Microorganism in Evergreen Agriculture: An Overview. In: Meena, V., Maurya, B., Verma, J., Meena, R. (eds) Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2776-2_1

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