Abstract
Plants provide different products required for sustaining life. There are many stress factors that affect plant growth and development adversely such as drought, salinity, heavy metal toxicity, osmotic potential, water and cold stress. These stresses produce their own effects individually or in combination. For example, water stress leads to drought conditions and increases salt concentration in the soil that eventually results in reduced growth, low productivity and, ultimately, plant death. Therefore, it is necessary to induce tolerance in the plant to different stress factors. The role of microbes in improving plant growth under stress conditions is well established in the literature. Here, in this chapter, the role of microbes and their mechanisms in inducing tolerance are mentioned. Detailed insight into the mechanisms involved in inducing tolerance to stress conditions will help us in making a suitable strategy for developing stress-resistant plant varieties that can cope up with stress conditions.
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Jha, D., Kulshreshtha, S., Chauhan, S. (2020). Plant Microbial Ecology as a Potential Option for Stress Management in Plants. In: Varma, A., Tripathi, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Plant Microbe Symbiosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36248-5_17
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