Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: March | Volume: 7 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 387-391
Mycorrhiza Helper Bacteria: Future Prospects
Subash Kumar Gupta1, Arka Pratim Chakraborty2
1Assistant Professor, Botany Department, Gyan Jyoti College, Siliguri-734003 West Bengal (India)
2Assistant Professor, Botany Department, Raiganj University, Uttar Dinajpur-733134 West Bengal (India)
Corresponding Author: Subash Kumar Gupta
ABSTRACT
Mycorrhiza helper bacteria (MHB) are a group of organism that selectively promotes the establishment of mycorrhizal symbiosis. The establishment of mycorrhizal symbioses can be positively influenced by certain bacterial isolates, an effect exhibited by mycorrhiza helper bacteria. Nowadays MHB are considered as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). There are potential practical application of mycorrhiza helper bacteria in agriculture and forestry. On the basis of scientific and practical interests, supported by the development of genomics, may represent a unique opportunity to place MHB at the forefront of future mycorrhiza research and to boost the more general field of fungal-bacterial interactions in ecosystems and for the benefit of mankind.
Keywords: Mycorrhiza, symbioses, genomics, ecosystems, fungal.
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