Anil Prakash
Barkatullah University, India
Title: The hidden microbial world of plants: How they are responsible for plant health
Biography
Biography: Anil Prakash
Abstract
Endophytes are the intact multifarious group of microorganism colonizes the tissue of the host plants without being recognized as pathogens and known to have impacts on plant communities through increasing fitness by conferring abiotic and biotic stress tolerance. Accelerate seedling emergence, promote plant establishment and growth enhancement by helping plants in acquiring nutrients, e.g. via nitrogen fixation, ammonia production, phosphate solubilization or iron chelation, by preventing pathogen infection via antifungal or antibacterial or insecticidal agents, by out competing pathogens for nutrients by siderophore production or by establishing the plants systemic resistance and growth promotion by producing phytohormones like auxin or cytokinin or by producing ACC deaminase, which lowers ethylene levels depending upon the mechanism applied. It is still unproved that endophytes from rhizosphere or arial are more potent as many factors play a vital role to determine the mines and activity of the group. Much more exploration related to plant growth activity and to untapped and maintain this attributes as in nature is to be done for getting appropriate answers.