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Mechanisms Involved with Bacilli-Mediated Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

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Due to increased demand for food and feed, plants are being grown in marginal lands dominated by abiotic stresses. These abiotic stresses predispose plants to biotic stresses compromising the yield and quality. Mitigation efforts of these stresses with synthetic chemicals further complicated the situation. However, use of beneficial microbes opened a new horizon for managing these stresses in the agricultural ecosystem. To date, an appreciable amount of research elucidated the underlying mechanisms how these microbes, especially numerous species belonging to the genus Bacillus, play a positive role in mitigating these stresses. Colonization of plant rhizosphere or phyllosphere by these microbes contributes to alleviating these stresses through up- or downregulation of major metabolic pathways in plants. Regulation of metabolic pathway helps in reducing/neutralizing the level of stressors or inducing plants to overproduce stress-mitigating biochemicals. This chapter compiles all the major mechanisms pertaining to biotic and abiotic stress alleviation in plants by Bacilli to aid in elucidating more complex mechanisms by future research endeavors.

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Rahman, M., Miah, M.N.A., Dudding, W. (2022). Mechanisms Involved with Bacilli-Mediated Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants. In: Islam, M.T., Rahman, M., Pandey, P. (eds) Bacilli in Agrobiotechnology. Bacilli in Climate Resilient Agriculture and Bioprospecting. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85465-2_8

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