Table 2.
Phyto-microbiome engineering approaches for abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants.
| Plant growth promoting microbes | Host plant | Microbiome engineering approaches | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brucella sp. PS4 | Gossypium hirsutum L. | Promotes pesticide degradation | Ahmad et al. (2022) |
| B. subtilis PM32 | Solanum tuberosum L. | Biocontrol of fungal diseases | Mehmood et al. (2021) |
| G. intraradices | Cucumis sativus L. | Improves biomass, regulates salinity stress, enhances the production of antioxidant enzymes | Hashem et al. (2018) |
| B. firmus SW5 | Glycine max L. | Regulates production of antioxidant enzymes, salinity tolerance | El-Esawi et al. (2018) |
| B. subtilis GB03 | Arabidopsis thaliana L. | Monitors the import of sodium ions in root | Wang et al. (2016) |
| Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium brunneum BIPESCO5 | Capsicum annuum L. | Inhibit pathogenic Fusarium sp. | Jaber and Alananbeh (2018) |
| A. pullulans 490 | Solanum lycopersicum L. | Biocontrol activity and helps in the production of biosurfactants | Köhl et al. (2020) |
| B. pumilus JPVS11 | Oryza sativa L. | Regulates salt tolerance | Kumar and Sharma (2020) |
| Bacterial endophytes (Bacillus and Brevibacillus) | Zea mays L. | Enhances plant growth and development | Al Kahtani et al. (2020) |
| Glomus mosseae | Triticum aestivum L. | Controls osmotic potential and drought stress, regulates production of antioxidant enzymes | Rani et al. (2018) |
| B. xiamenensis | Saccharum officinarum L. | Improves the phytoremediation capacity | Zainab et al. (2021) |
| P. geniculata, B. subtilis, B. siamensis, B. gelatini, B. ubonensis, B. territorii | Piper nigrum L. | Antagonistic to soil-borne Fusarium solani | Lau et al. (2020) |
| R. irregularis | Triticum aestivum L. | Regulates heat stress, allocation of nutrient and nutrient composition in roots | Cabral et al. (2016) |
| T. harzianum Thar DOB-31 | Curcuma longa L | Regulates production of Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and hydrogen cyanide | Vinayarani and Prakash (2018) |
| Halomonas sp. | Avicennia marina L. | Regulates heavy metal stress | Mukherjee et al. (2019) |
| Endophytic diazotrophic bacteria | Sarracenia species L. | Helps in nitrogen fixation | Sexton et al. (2019) |
| B. safensis SCAL1 | Solanum lycopersicum L. | Regulates heat stress | Mukhtar et al. (2022) |