Biofertilizers function as key player in sustainable agriculture by improving soil fertility, plant tolerance and crop productivity
By Deepak Bhardwaj, M. Ansari, R. Sahoo, Narendra Kumar Tuteja. Microbial Cell Factories, 2014
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Current soil management strategies are mainly dependent on inorganic chemical-based fertilizers, which caused a serious threat to human health and environment. The exploitation of beneficial microbes as a biofertilizer has become paramount importance in agriculture sector for their potential role in food safety and sustainable crop production. The eco-friendly approaches inspire a wide range of application of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs), endo- and ectomycorrhizal fungi, cyanobacteria and many other useful microscopic organisms led to improved nutrient uptake, plant growth and plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stress. The present review highlighted biofertilizers mediated crops functional traits such as plant growth and productivity, nutrient profile, plant defense and protection with special emphasis to its function to trigger various growth- and defense-related genes in signaling network of cellular pathways to cause cellular response and thereby crop improvement. The knowledge gained from the literature appraised herein will help us to understand the physiological bases of biofertlizers towards sustainable agriculture in reducing problems associated with the use of chemicals fertilizers.
Subfields: Plant Science
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- Biostimulants in Plant Science: A Global Perspective (2017, background): “Seaweed extracts have been considered as biofertilizers (Zodape, 2001) and microorganisms have also been described as biofertilizers (Vessey, 2003; Fuentes-Ramirez and Caballero-Mellado, 2006; Roy et al., 2006; Malusá et al., 2012; Bhardwaj et al., 2014; Malusá and Vassilev, 2014).”
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- Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) as Green Bioinoculants: Recent Developments, Constraints, and Prospects (2021, background): “, and a deficiency of other important nutrients like P, Cu, Mo, and Co that reduce the biological potential of the PGPR-based fertilizers [23,128].”
- Integrated phytohormone production by the plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Bacillus tequilensis SSB07 induced thermotolerance in soybean (2019, background): “…ameliorate abiotic stress in crops, thereby improving yield and resistance (Vessey 2003; Ahemad and Kibret 2014), through the solubilization, mobilization, and improved uptake of plant nutrients, as well as the modulation of phytohormones (i.e. phytostimulation; Vessey 2003; Bhardwaj et al. 2014).”
- Impact of seaweeds on agricultural crop production as biofertilizer (2017, background): “In some cases, marine macroalgae are not only used as biofertilizers but also as soil stabilizers (Abdel-Raouf et al. 2012; Bhardwaj et al. 2014; Arioli et al. 2015).”
- Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): A Novel Agent for Sustainable Food Production (2019, background): “With current campaign to halt the over dependent on chemically synthesized fertilizers, focus has been on harnessing the potential microorganisms for improved agrobiology (Afzal and Asghari, 2008; Bhardwaj et al., 2014).”