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Revisiting the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria: lessons from the past and objectives for the future

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Plant beneficial rhizobacteria (PBR) is a group of naturally occurring rhizospheric microbes that enhance nutrient availability and induce biotic and abiotic stress tolerance through a wide array of mechanisms to enhance agricultural sustainability. Application of PBR has the potential to reduce worldwide requirement of agricultural chemicals and improve agro-ecological sustainability. The PBR exert their beneficial effects in three major ways; (1) fix atmospheric nitrogen and synthesize specific compounds to promote plant growth, (2) solubilize essential mineral nutrients in soils for plant uptake, and (3) produce antimicrobial substances and induce systemic resistance in host plants to protect them from biotic and abiotic stresses. Application of PBR as suitable inoculants appears to be a viable alternative technology to synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Furthermore, PBR enhance nutrient and water use efficiency, influence dynamics of mineral recycling, and tolerance of plants to other environmental stresses by improving health of soils. This report provides comprehensive reviews and discusses beneficial effects of PBR on plant and soil health. Considering their multitude of functions to improve plant and soil health, we propose to call the plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPR) as PBR.

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AA and EK are thankful to National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea. VSM, AP, HR, MC are thankful to Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi India. DKM wishes to acknowledge UGC, UCOST and CSIR. MTI is thankful to the World Bank for funding this work through a Higher Education Quality Enhancement. DKM and AA conceived, outlined and wrote a part of the article. AA and SKM wrote the first draft of the manuscript and VSM designed figures, tabulation and finalizing the manuscript. All authors contributed equally to the work

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  1. Division of Biotechnology, College of Environmental and Bioresource Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Iksan, 570752, Republic of Korea

    Abhinav Aeron, Ekta Khare & Kangmin Kim

  2. Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, UP, 208024, India

    Ekta Khare

  3. Department of Microbiology, Government Science College, Vankal, Mangrol, Surat, Gujarat, 394430, India

    Chaitanya Kumar Jha

  4. ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, UK, 263601, India

    Vijay Singh Meena, Arunava Pattanayak, Hosahatti Rajashekara, Mahipal Choudhary, A. R. N. S. Subbanna & Manoj Parihar

  5. Microbial Chemistry Department, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, 12622, Egypt

    Shadia Mohammed Abdel Aziz

  6. Department of Biotechnology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Dhaka, Gazipur, 1706, Bangladesh

    Mohammed Tofazzal Islam

  7. Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, ICAR-Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, 110012, India

    Sunita Kumari Meena

  8. Sugarcane Research Institute, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, 848125, India

    Sunita Kumari Meena

  9. Department of Botany and Microbiology, Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar, UK, 249404, India

    Abhinav Aeron, Ramesh Chandra Dubey & Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari

  10. Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, UP, 221005, India

    Bihari Ram Maurya

  11. Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, SKN College of Agriculture, Jobner, SKN, Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303329, India

    Rajhans Verma

  12. ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India

    H. N. Meena

  13. University School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Navranpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380009, India

    Meenu Saraf

  14. Division of Agronomy, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, 110012, India

    Ram Swaroop Bana

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    Mahfuzur Rahman

  17. Anand Agricultural University (AAU), Anand, Gujarat, 388110, India

    Dileep Kumar

  18. Microbial Genetics and PGPR Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agriculture Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, UP, 221005, India

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  19. Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India

    Rajesh Kumar Meena

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    Shruti Shukla

  21. Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu, 41566, South Korea

    Govarthanan Muthusamy

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Aeron, A., Khare, E., Jha, C.K. et al. Revisiting the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria: lessons from the past and objectives for the future. Arch Microbiol 202, 665–676 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-019-01779-w

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