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Microbial Inoculation to Alleviate the Metal Toxicity in Crop Plants and Subsequent Growth Promotion

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Sustainable Solutions for Elemental Deficiency and Excess in Crop Plants

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With increasing anthropogenic activities, soil pollution by heavy metals and metalloids is causing serious quality issues in variable crops irrespective of irrigation pattern or seasonal impact. Rice, wheat, all kinds of lentils and leafy vegetables are contaminated with such metal(loid)s, and soil microbiota has been proven to be a vital biomanagement agent in remediation of such pollution. Rhizospheric bacteria, fungi, along with the mycorrhizal association, and algae are experimentally proven by many researchers over the years that these bioagents have the potential to mitigate metal toxicity at high level and can be applied at fields with proper implementation processes for alleviating the toxic metal(loid) stress on crops. This chapter has summarized the role of soil microbial communities in mitigation of soil metal(loid)s from being phyto-available and compromising crop’s quality.

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Afsal, F., Majumdar, A., Kumar, J.S., Bose, S. (2020). Microbial Inoculation to Alleviate the Metal Toxicity in Crop Plants and Subsequent Growth Promotion. In: Mishra, K., Tandon, P.K., Srivastava, S. (eds) Sustainable Solutions for Elemental Deficiency and Excess in Crop Plants. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8636-1_17

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