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Microbial-Mediated Amelioration of Plants Under Abiotic Stress: An Emphasis on Arid and Semiarid Climate

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It is consensus that plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) be studied extensively in the last two decades, but several of them are not fully investigated/explored especially in arid and semiarid regions worldwide. They have been deployed as potent source of bioactive compounds useful in prospecting of sustainable agricultural. In the present scenario to meet food security, a number of different approaches have been employed to cultivate crops in salt- and drought-prone area. Hence, nowadays, the use of microbial inoculation to alleviate abiotic stress and amelioration of crops could be considered a more cost-effective eco-friendly approach. By keeping current approaches available for plant-microbe interaction, it is needed to pursue prospective research in this area. In the present chapter, authors will emphasize the role of benign PGPB in crop cultivation under stress through produced elicitors/determinants. It is very urgent need to explore this approach for sustainable agriculture grown under stress and also to understand the mutual interactive activities belowground. Therefore, an exploitation of PGPB-plant interactions may be opted in the amelioration of plant health in arid and semiarid area.

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Acknowledgments

In the present review, some of the research has been partially supported by DBT and SERB grant no. BT/PR1231/AGR/021/340/2011 and SR/FT/LS-129/2012, respectively, to DKC. Authors would also like to acknowledge UGC-RGNF fellowship.

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    Amrita Kasotia

  2. Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT), Block ‘E-3’, 4th Floor, Amity University Campus, Sector-125, Gautam Buddha Nagar, 201313, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ajit Varma, Narendra Tuteja & Devendra Kumar Choudhary

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Kasotia, A., Varma, A., Tuteja, N., Choudhary, D.K. (2016). Microbial-Mediated Amelioration of Plants Under Abiotic Stress: An Emphasis on Arid and Semiarid Climate. In: Choudhary, D., Varma, A., Tuteja, N. (eds) Plant-Microbe Interaction: An Approach to Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2854-0_7

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