Abiotic Stress Responses and Microbe-Mediated Mitigation in Plants: The Omics Strategies

Abiotic stresses are the foremost limiting factors for agricultural productivity. Crop plants need to cope up adverse external pressure created by environmental and edaphic conditions with their intrinsic biological mechanisms, failing which their growth, development, and productivity suffer. Microorganisms, the most natural inhabitants of diverse environments exhibit enormous metabolic capabilities to mitigate abiotic stresses. Since microbial interactions with plants are an integral part of the living ecosystem, they are believed to be the natural partners that modulate local and systemic mechanisms in plants to offer defense under adverse external conditions. Plant-microbe interactions comprise complex…

• DO
  Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India

  Award: SB/YS/LS-218/2013
• IC
  Indian Council of Agricultural Research

  Award: NBAIM/AMAAS/2014-15/1a(6)/223
• SA
  Science and Engineering Research Board
• NB
  National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms