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Microorganisms Aiding Existence and Efficiency of Plants in Saline Environment: What We Know and What to Expect

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Microorganisms in Saline Environments: Strategies and Functions

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 56))

Abstract

Salinity poses a major threat to agriculture and hence to food production globally. Though a number of plants are halophytes, surviving in saline environment and, in some cases, requiring a saline soil for growth, none of the cultivated crops are halophytes. Microorganisms, being ubiquitous, are present everywhere, and a large number of salt-tolerant microbes have been found to be associated with halophytes. Many of them are involved in providing tolerance to the plants against salt stress through various mechanisms such as adjusting osmotic balance, ion homeostasis, enhancing antioxidant machinery for scavenging the toxic reactive oxygen species and production of hormones, etc. The use of beneficial microorganisms which have the potential for plant growth promotion as well as salt stress alleviation is gaining momentum. The most commonly used are the plant growth-promoting bacteria of genus Bacillus, as well as some arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, particularly belonging to the genus Glomus. This approach would provide a cost-efficient, eco-friendly means of salt stress alleviation linked with plant growth promotion, which in turn could lead to sustainable agriculture under changing climatic conditions.

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Chakraborty, U., Roy, S., Chakraborty, B. (2019). Microorganisms Aiding Existence and Efficiency of Plants in Saline Environment: What We Know and What to Expect. In: Giri, B., Varma, A. (eds) Microorganisms in Saline Environments: Strategies and Functions. Soil Biology, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18975-4_9

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