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Affirmative Plant-Microbe Interfaces Toward Agroecosystem Sustainability

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Soil microbes are the important part of every agroecosystem in the world. They live naturally in all soils and plant systems, in which they depict their dominant existence with regard through their number, vast diversity, and their multi-dynamic functional abilities. They carry out essential life- and soil-sustaining processes such as nutrient fixation, solubilization, recycling, decomposition, acquisition, mobilization, remediation, degradation, and sequestration. Natural balance in all these processes is the key determinant of soil fertility that is represented by diverse physical, chemical, and biological soil factors. Fertile soils are characterized by diverse microbes, and they guarantee sustainability in agroecology that results in better plant health and crop productivity. Functional capabilities of microbial communities present in soils and their interaction with plant parts have been critically explored and characterized in the last few decades. So, application of these beneficial plant-microbe interactions can be used to find out a substitute and/or supplement in the present agricultural systems that are extensively dependent on synthetic chemical and inorganic fertilizers. In this chapter, we provide the comprehensive details of soil plant-microbe interactions, their role in plant health, and sustainability of agroecosystems. Further, their potential roles that can be used to establish a sustainable soil ecological environment for optimum crop growth, better development, and maximum yield in the long run are briefly discussed.

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Ali, Q., Ashraf, S., Kamran, M., Ijaz, M. (2019). Affirmative Plant-Microbe Interfaces Toward Agroecosystem Sustainability. In: Kumar, V., Prasad, R., Kumar, M., Choudhary, D. (eds) Microbiome in Plant Health and Disease. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8495-0_7

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