ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Plants are continuously exposed to a plethora of threats originating from dierent biotic and abiotic stressors, which have escalated over time due to change in global climate pattern as well as human interferences and the subject of stress is imperative in in uencing plant growth and crop production all around the world. Diverse methods like use of plants with natural tolerance or plants with modied tolerance by use of stress-related genes are available for alleviation of such stresses. Nevertheless, the use of rhizospheric microorganisms having plant growth-promoting traits has also been proved to be eective under stressful conditions. Such microbes can symbiotically or non-symbiotically alleviate the eects of stress and
CONTENTS Abstract ............................................................................................................241 Introduction ................................................................................................... 242 Impacts of Abiotic Stresses on Plants ......................................................... 243
Rhizobacteria ............................................................................................ 246 Plant-Microbe Interactions .................................................................... 248
Rhizobacteria as a Tool for the Management of Abiotic Stresses ........... 249 Conclusions .....................................................................................................255 References ........................................................................................................255
enhance plant growth. erefore, diverse microbial species and strains are isolated, screened, tested, and used as microbial inoculums worldwide. e vast in uence of rhizospheric microbes toward the growth and production of crop plants can be environmentally and economically signi- cant. is chapter highlights the management and mitigation of various abiotic stressors and their eects on plants by exploring the opportunities available with the rhizobacterial microbes.
