Drought adaptive microbes as bioinoculants for the horticultural crops
Divjot Kour, Sofia Sharief Khan, Tanvir Kaur, Harpreet Kour, Gagandeep Singh, Ashok Yadav, Ajar Nath Yadav
Abstract
have been reported worldwide. These bioresources exhibit a wide range of mechanisms such as helping plant in nutrient acquisition, producing growth regulators, lowering the levels of stress ethylene, increasing the concentration of osmolytes, and preventing oxidative damage under water deficit environmental conditions. Horticulture is one of the potential agricultural sectors to speed up the economy, poverty and generation of employment for livelihood. The applications of drought adaptive plant growth promoting (PGP) microbes as biofertilizers and biopesticides for horticulture is a potential strategy to improve the productivity and protection of horticultural crops from abiotic and biotic stresses for agricultural sustainability.