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Microbes: A Sustainable Approach for Enhancing Nutrient Availability in Agricultural Soils

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Role of Rhizospheric Microbes in Soil

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The soil scientists along with microbiologists had a big responsibility to come forward with a sustainable solution to enhance soil nutrient supplying capacity, without applying the agrochemical and mineral fertilizers. The only way out to this problem is through the use of efficient microbes which plays a vital role as organic or biological agents in facilitating uptake of many primary and secondary nutrients. Moreover, the fertility of any soil is directly proportional to the microbial biomass and its potential of functional activity and diversity. Billions of microbes which are present in soil are major key players of nutrient cycling and their solubilization and mineralization. This fact has been known and scientifically reported for a number of decades, but still its significance has not yet channelized into the mainstream of intensive agriculture. Thus, in this chapter, exhaustive overview of the different groups of agriculturally important microbes has been given which are responsible for enhancing nutrient availability particularly nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, iron and zinc in agricultural soils.

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