The future of agriculture strongly depends on our ability to enhance productivity without sacrificing long-term production potential. An ecologically and economically sustainable strategy is the application of microorganisms, such as the diverse bacterial species of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB). The use of these bio-resources for the enhancement of crop productivity is gaining worldwide importance.

"Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Probiotics" discusses the current trends and future prospects of beneficial microorganisms acting as Probiotics. Topics include the application for the aboveground fitness of plants, in mountain ecosystems, in tropical and Mediterranean forests, and in muga sericulture. Further aspects are Arabidopsis as a model system for the diversity and complexity of plant responses, plant parasitic nematodes, nitrogen fixation and phosphorus nutrition.

Probiotics for Plants: Importance of Rhizobacteria on Aboveground Fitness in Plants

Bacterial Inoculants for Field Applications under Mountain Ecosystem: Present Initiatives and Future Prospects
Potential Use of Soil Microbial Community in Agriculture
Impact of Application of Biofertilizers on Soil Structure and Resident Microbial Community Structure and Function
The Impact of Mycorrhizosphere Bacterial Communities on Soil Biofunctioning in Tropical and Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems
Ecology of Bacterial Endophytes in Sustainable Agriculture
Strategies for the Exploration and Development of Biofertilizer
Endophytic Bacteria and their Role in Legumes Growth Promotion
Role of PGPR under Different Agroclimatic Conditions
Consortium of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria: Future Perspective in Agriculture
Signals in the Rhizosphere and their Effects on the Interactions between Microorganisms and Plants
Role of plant - Microbe Interactions in the Sustainable Development of Muga Sericulture
Arabidopsis as a Model System to Decipher the Diversity and Complexity of Plant Responses to Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria
Interactions of plant parasitic nematodes and plant pathogenic bacteria
PGPR Mediated Systemic Resistance for Sustainable Agriculture
Potential of PGPR for Sustainable Agriculture
Contribution of N₂ fixation for the World Agriculture
Plant Probiotics in Phosphorus Nutrition in Crops, with Special Reference to Rice.