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Salt-Tolerant and Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria: A New-Fangled Approach for Improving Crop Yield

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Environmental pollution and climate change have been an ablaze issue in recent times. This is correlated with increasing soil infertility. Increase in soil salinity, a major abiotic stress, is the main reasons for soil infertility affecting crop productivity worldwide. About 22% cultivated lands and 33% of the irrigated fields are affected by high concentration of salt. Almost every year, 1–2% cultivated lands are reduced due to the soil salinization. It is also reported by several researchers that half of the fertile land will become saline by 2050. Salinity stress can elevate the ionic stress and osmotic stress which can induce to accumulate the reactive oxygen species (ROS). Salinity inhibits plant photosynthesis, protein synthesis, and lipid metabolism. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are a group of bacteria that colonize in plant roots and enhance the plant growth by wide variety of mechanism like producing indoleacetic acid (IAA), gibberellic acid, siderophore, ACC deaminase, hydrogen cyanate (HCN), etc. PGPRs have some beneficial role to cope up with the salinity stress and increase the crop productivity in various ways. Recent studies have revealed that PGPR can increase proline content, plant biomass, nutrient uptake, osmolytes accumulation, antioxidants, and photosynthesis. Envisioning the potentiality of PGPR to restore soil fertility, a comprehensive discussion on amelioration of salinity stress by PGPR is intended. In this chapter, an attempt has been made to explore the beneficial effects of PGPR in plant-microbe interaction in connection with salinity stress to understand its application to mitigate salinity stress in soil and improve crop yield.

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Dutta, S., Bhattacharjya, D., Sinha, S., Mandal, A.K. (2021). Salt-Tolerant and Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria: A New-Fangled Approach for Improving Crop Yield. In: Husen, A. (eds) Harsh Environment and Plant Resilience. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65912-7_15

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