Microbial biofertilizers: Bioresources and eco-friendly technologies for agricultural and environmental sustainability

By Divjot Kour, Kusam Lata Rana, Ajar Nath Yadav, N. Yadav, Manish Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Pritesh Vyas, H. Dhaliwal, Anil K. Saxena. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2020

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Abstract Biofertilizers consists of the microorganisms bringing about the improvement of the nutrients of the soil enhancing their accessibility to the crops. Plant nutrients form the most vital components of the sustainable agriculture. Producing healthy crops for the fulfillment of the demands of the world's growing population is completely dependent upon kind of the fertilizers being used to provide the plants with all the major nutrients but more dependability on the chemical fertilizers is destroying the environmental ecology and negatively influencing the health of humans. Thus, using microbes as bioinoculants is believed to be the best substitute of chemical fertilizers as eco-friendly manner for plant growth and soil fertility. These microbes are known to be the potent tool to provide substantial benefits to crops for sustainable agriculture. The beneficial microbes colonize the plant (epiphytic, endophytic and rhizospheric) systems of crops and plays significant role in nutrient uptake from surrounding ecosystems of plants. The plant associates microbes have ability to promote growth of plant under the natural as well as extreme conditions. These plant growth promoting microbes enhance the plant growth by various direct and indirect plant growth promoting mechanisms such as biological nitrogen fixation, the production of various plant growth hormones, siderophores, HCN, various hydrolytic enzymes and solubilization of potassium, zinc, and phosphorus. Extensive work on the biofertilizers has been done and even available which clearly reveals that these microbes possess the potential of providing the vital nutrients to the crops in adequate quantities for the enrichment of yield of the crops without disturbing the environment.

Subfields: Plant Science

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1. Divjot Kour
2. Kusam Lata Rana
3. Ajar Nath Yadav
4. T. Kaur
5. Rubee Devi
6. A. Yadav

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• Beneficial fungal communities from different habitats and their roles in plant growth promotion and soil health (2020, background): “Fungal strains like Trichoderma sp., Penicillium sp., Penicillium simplicissimum, Aspergillus niger, Abisidia spinosa, Abisidia glauca and Abisidia cylindrospora have been known to possess zinc solubilizing capability(Kour et al. 2020a; Kour et al. 2019a; Saravanan et al. 2011; Yadav et al. 2020c).”