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Exploring Microbial Diversity of Arid Regions of Globe for Agricultural Sustainability: A Revisit

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Significant part of planet’s land is covered by arid deserts, and these ecoregions are driven and dominated with microbial dwellers. Microbial residents of desert land are known to interact with plants and boost their health through their plant growth-promoting abilities and can withstand climatic stresses imposed by arid habitats. Groups of such beneficial soil microbes are being called as plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPM) that are capable of alleviating plant immunity and growth through indirect means via inducing plant defense against phytopathogens or directly promote growth by nutrient solubilization, by assimilation, by modulating phytohormones, and by secreting specific solutes and enzymes. Explorations of microbial communities from extreme arid ecoregions across the globe have revealed abundance of Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes like bacterial communities and fungal phyla like Basidiomycota and Ascomycota. Several members of these groups, more specifically Bacillus sp., are known for wide diversity of plant growth promotion mechanisms and reported from hot as well as cold arid deserts. Exploration of such dryland microbial communities and their potentials aiding plant health against arid atrocities may open up opportunities to draw endless unexploited desert reservoir for agricultural sustainability. This chapter provides insight about microbial diversity in arid deserts of globe and highlights their plant promotion potentials.

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Mawar, R., Ranawat, M., Sharma, S.K., Sayyed, R.Z. (2023). Exploring Microbial Diversity of Arid Regions of Globe for Agricultural Sustainability: A Revisit. In: Mawar, R., Sayyed, R.Z., Sharma, S.K., Sattiraju, K.S. (eds) Plant Growth Promoting Microorganisms of Arid Region. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4124-5_1

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