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Endospheric Microbiome-Assisted Alteration in the Metabolomic Profiling of Host towards Abiotic Stress Mitigation

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Abiotic stress such as salinity, low or high temperatures, alkalinity, drought, and other environmental extremes may be defined as a negative effect of non-living factors on a living thing thus inhibiting plant function. Abiotic stress tends to negatively impact growth, development, seed quality, and yield of the crop and other plants. To overcome this problem, various researches are being carried out in genetic engineering to develop plant varieties that are tolerant against abiotic stress. An alternative strategy has also been observed in the present scenario, where microbial endophytes play a key role in plant survival under abiotic stress. Endophytes that live internally in plant tissues for a part of their life cycle are known to regulate homeostasis in plants during stressed environmental conditions. This potential of endophytes to promote plant growth during abiotic stress has been explored with several in vitro studies. Several mechanisms that are employed by endophytes to overcome abiotic stress include accumulation of stress responsible molecules, secondary metabolites, increased production of phytohormones, and production of antioxidant enzymes. The tools of omics can be used further to provide detailed insight into how endophytic diversity influences the metabolomics of hosts during abiotic stresses. This chapter mainly emphasizes on the endophyte microbiome and its role in altering the mechanisms of a host to mitigate abiotic stress.

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The authors are grateful to Director CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute for providing facilities and support during the study. This work is supported by the CSIR-Network project (MLP0048; OLP 0109) funded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India.

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    Srishti Kar, Priya Jaiswal, Sankalp Misra & Puneet Singh Chauhan

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    Priya Jaiswal, Sankalp Misra & Puneet Singh Chauhan

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Kar, S., Jaiswal, P., Misra, S., Chauhan, P.S. (2021). Endospheric Microbiome-Assisted Alteration in the Metabolomic Profiling of Host towards Abiotic Stress Mitigation. In: Pudake, R.N., Sahu, B.B., Kumari, M., Sharma, A.K. (eds) Omics Science for Rhizosphere Biology. Rhizosphere Biology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0889-6_14

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