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Mycorrhiza and Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria: Potential Bioagents for Sustainable Phosphorus Management in Agriculture

Fazli Wahid¹, Muhammad Sharif², Shah Fahad³, Amjad Ali⁴, Muhammad Adnan¹, Rafiullah¹, Shah Saud⁵, Subhan Danish^6,*, Muhammad Arif Ali⁶, Niaz Ahmed⁶, Hüseyin Arslan⁷, Doğan Arslan⁸, Murat Erman⁸, Ayman EL Sabagh^8,9,*, Fatemeh Gholizadeh¹⁰, Rahul Datta¹¹

1 Department of Agriculture, University of Swabi, Swabi, 23561, Pakistan
2 Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, 25130, Pakistan
3 Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Haripur, 22620, Pakistan
4 School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, 710055, China
5 Department of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China
6 Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan
7 Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Harran Üniversity, Osmanbey Campus, Şanliurfa, 63050, Turkey
8 Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Siirt University, Siirt, 56100, Turkey
9 Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33156, Egypt
10 Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, 66177-15175, Iran
11 Department of Geology and Pedology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, 61300, Czech Republic

* Corresponding Authors:Subhan Danish. Email: ; Ayman EL Sabagh. Email:

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2022, 91(2), 257-278. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2022.016512

Received 14 March 2021; Accepted 31 May 2021; Issue published 26 September 2021

Abstract

Phosphorus (P) is a critical nutrient that plays an essential role in improving soil fertility for optimum plant growth and productivity. It is one of the most deficient macro-nutrients in agricultural soils after nitrogen and is considered inadequate for plant growth and production. To P availability in soils, the farmers are applying huge amounts of synthetic P fertilizers that adversely affect the wider environment, groundwater, soil fertility and microbial population. Many beneficial microbes are known to release and supply soluble P for improving growth and yield of a variety of plants in a sustainable manner in P deficient soils. Thus, inoculation of these microbes, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) to soil to enhance crop production without harming the environment, is an alternative approach to chemical fertilizers. The combined role of AMF and PSB in P solubilization is not well understood and the application and mode of action of these microbial groups are often naive due to variation in the environment. Therefore, the current review article would develop a better understanding of the interactive role and mechanisms of AMF and PSB in improving P availability from both organic and inorganic sources in a sustainable crop production system. Finally, the current review would loop out further avenues for researchers interested to commercially produce effective AMF and PSB-based biofertilizers for sustainable management of phosphorus over a wide range of agricultural crops worldwide.

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