Microbial inoculants – fostering sustainability in groundnut production DOI Creative Commons

Keerthana Krishnan,

R. Anandham, Yuvasri Errakutty Arunan

et al.

Science Progress, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 108(2)

Published: April 1, 2025

Groundnut ( Arachis hypogaea L.) is a vital leguminous oilseed crop, widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions due to its high nutritional economic significance food, feed, oil purposes. It rich source of protein, oil, vitamins, minerals, bioactive compounds with anti-inflammatory, anticancer, anti-aging properties. Globally, groundnut production approximately 54.2 million tonnes, India contributing 10.1 tonnes through rainfed cultivation. However, productivity constrained by drought, salinity, soil nutrient deficits, disease infestations. Conventional farming depends on chemical inputs enhance yield but negatively impacts health fertility, reduces microbial diversity, pollutes agroecosystems, creating an urgent need for sustainable alternatives. Microbe-based bioinoculants comprising nitrogen-fixers, phosphorus solubilizers, potassium sulphur oxidizers, other plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), mycorrhizal fungi, cyanobacteria offer alternative approach the growth various direct indirect mechanisms, including augmenting absorption, improving quality parameters, suppressing pathogens, stimulating defence, increasing resilience abiotic stresses. This narrative review examines benefits, mechanisms rhizospheric, phyllospheric, endophytic microorganisms associated groundnut. Additionally, molecular docking root exudate metabolites, produced upon inoculation, stress-responsive proteins highlights inoculants mitigating drought salinity synthesizes recent advances inoculant applications, highlighting their potential revolutionize Therefore, provide promising solution ensuring sustainability assurance food security amid global difficulties.

Language: Английский

Microbial inoculants – fostering sustainability in groundnut production DOI Creative Commons

Keerthana Krishnan,

R. Anandham, Yuvasri Errakutty Arunan

et al.

Science Progress, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 108(2)

Published: April 1, 2025

Groundnut ( Arachis hypogaea L.) is a vital leguminous oilseed crop, widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions due to its high nutritional economic significance food, feed, oil purposes. It rich source of protein, oil, vitamins, minerals, bioactive compounds with anti-inflammatory, anticancer, anti-aging properties. Globally, groundnut production approximately 54.2 million tonnes, India contributing 10.1 tonnes through rainfed cultivation. However, productivity constrained by drought, salinity, soil nutrient deficits, disease infestations. Conventional farming depends on chemical inputs enhance yield but negatively impacts health fertility, reduces microbial diversity, pollutes agroecosystems, creating an urgent need for sustainable alternatives. Microbe-based bioinoculants comprising nitrogen-fixers, phosphorus solubilizers, potassium sulphur oxidizers, other plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), mycorrhizal fungi, cyanobacteria offer alternative approach the growth various direct indirect mechanisms, including augmenting absorption, improving quality parameters, suppressing pathogens, stimulating defence, increasing resilience abiotic stresses. This narrative review examines benefits, mechanisms rhizospheric, phyllospheric, endophytic microorganisms associated groundnut. Additionally, molecular docking root exudate metabolites, produced upon inoculation, stress-responsive proteins highlights inoculants mitigating drought salinity synthesizes recent advances inoculant applications, highlighting their potential revolutionize Therefore, provide promising solution ensuring sustainability assurance food security amid global difficulties.

Language: Английский

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