Modern agriculture is facing twin challenge of ensuring global food security and executing it
in a sustainable manner. However, the rapidly expanding salinity stress in cultivable areas …

Plant growth‐promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are diverse groups of plant‐associated
microorganisms, which can reduce the severity or incidence of disease during antagonism …

Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis occurs between obligate biotrophic fungi of the
phylum Glomeromycota and most land plants. The exchange of nutrients between host …

Crop plants are affected by a series of inhibitory environmental and biotic factors that
decrease their growth and production. To counteract these adverse effects, plants work …

To date, an understanding of how plant growth-promoting bacteria facilitate plant growth has
been primarily based on studies of individual bacteria interacting with plants under different …

Plants and microbes coexist or compete for survival and their cohesive interactions play a
vital role in adapting to metalliferous environments, and can thus be explored to improve …

To feed all of the world's people, it is necessary to sustainably increase agricultural
productivity. One way to do this is through the increased use of plant growth-promoting …

Background Soil salinity and drought are an enormous worldwide problem for agriculture,
horticulture and silviculture. The initial responses of plants to drought and salinity are similar; …

The worldwide increases in both environmental damage and human population pressure
have the unfortunate consequence that global food production may soon become …

Both biotic and abiotic stresses are major constrains to agricultural production. Under stress
conditions, plant growth is affected by a number of factors such as hormonal and nutritional …