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The nutrition requirement for the intensive agriculture has pressurized non-renewable resources and demands the shift to renewable resources, “biofertilizers,” being the most important in case of soil fertility. The application of such biofertilizers has been carried out through conventional methods, mainly seed inoculation. However, with the increasing focus on endophytic microbes due to their edge over rhizosphere microbes, the application methods need to be modified accordingly. The conventional methods usually do not offer proper conditions for the bacteria to enter the seed before sowing. The microbial seed priming, biopriming, potentially has been explored for possible application of desired microbes to the seeds and resulted positively. The biopriming with/without subsequent incubation at microbe-favorable temperatures allows sufficient time for the endophytes to enter and colonize the seeds which is seldom the case in other treatments. Diversity of biopriming methods has been employed; here, we evaluate the methods for endophytes besides giving insights into possible methods which can be employed for successful application of endophytes to the seeds.
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Mahmood, A., Kataoka, R. (2019). Application of Endophytes Through Seed Priming. In: Hasanuzzaman, M., Fotopoulos, V. (eds) Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8625-1_25
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