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Microbes-Mediated Mitigation of Drought Stress in Plants: Recent Trends and Future Challenges

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Drought is accepted as one of the major constraints for crop growth, development and productivity worldwide. Drought-tolerant plants either employ drought avoidance mechanisms like elongation of root, reduction of leaf area and decreased stomatal number and conductance or drought tolerance mechanisms like accumulation of osmoprotectants (glycine betaine, proline, sugar alcohols, etc.) and other cellular and biochemical modifications. Another mechanism of drought tolerance in plants is their association with some beneficial rhizospheric or endophytic microbes. Plant growth-promoting (PGP) microbes help the crops to tolerate drought conditions by different mechanisms like secretion of phytohormones, exopolysaccharide and antioxidants, solubilization of essential micro and macro nutrients, accumulation of osmolytes and induction of stress-responsive genes. In this chapter, we review the role of PGP microbes in general stress mitigation strategies, with specific emphasis in imparting drought stress tolerance to plants.

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Jain, D., Phurailatpam, L., Mishra, S. (2020). Microbes-Mediated Mitigation of Drought Stress in Plants: Recent Trends and Future Challenges. In: Yadav, A., Rastegari, A., Yadav, N., Kour, D. (eds) Advances in Plant Microbiome and Sustainable Agriculture. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 20. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3204-7_9

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