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Use of PGPR to Optimize Soil and Crop Productivity Under Abiotic Stress

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Based on natural and anthropogenic activities, the soil quality has depleted gradually which is also mediated through unpredictably changed environmental conditions. As a consequence, a challenge has been raised before farmers and nations to compensate the degraded soil quality. To replenish the soil quality, farmers deploy synthetic fertilizer which is an unsustainable practice and further lead conditions worse by the diminished biological activity, increased level of toxicity, decreased fertility, etc. As a comparatively safe and sustainable alternative, PGPRs have been characterized as they could always assist plants against various challenges like nutrient unavailability, abiotic stresses, and pathogens. Many of those PGPRs which have been studied for their beneficial impacts are now used on a commercial scale for alleviating abiotic and biotic stresses of crop plants. Some of the PGPRs with wonderful ex situ and in situ performances are Azospirillum brasilense, Azospirillum lipoferum, Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Alcaligenes faecalis, Stenotrophomonas, Pseudomonas, Rahnella, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus licheniformis, Proteus mirabilis, Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Gluconoacetobacter diazotrophicus, Azoarcus, Pseudomonas migulae, Brachybacterium saurashtrense, Brevibacterium casei, Haererohalobacter, and many more which have surely assisted plant including a list of Arabidopsis, maize, wheat, potato, tomato, capsicum, etc. This chapter unfolds important mechanisms and strategies used by PGPRs to help crop plant cope up the various biotic and abiotic stresses and increase soil and plant health.

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Rashid, M.M., Chaturvedi, S., Vaishnav, A., Choudhary, D.K. (2021). Use of PGPR to Optimize Soil and Crop Productivity Under Abiotic Stress. In: Dubey, S.K., Verma, S.K. (eds) Plant, Soil and Microbes in Tropical Ecosystems. Rhizosphere Biology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3364-5_10

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