Chapter 15
Conclusion
Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari
The scientists so far have paid much attention to the understanding of plant beneficial
free-living and symbiotic bacteria and only recently realized to look deeper into
those microorganisms inhabiting inside the plant tissues and remain asymptomatic
(Nerva et al. 2019). The symptomless plants bear certain group of microorganisms
which play a vital role in growth and health, promotion of the plants, named as
“Endophytes.” These microorganisms include bacteria, actinobacteria, and fungi
having the main source of agrobiological interest. They create a host plant–endophyte
relationship to provide a beneficial alternative for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
due to their diverse potential for sustainable agroecosystem. Information is given
about endophytic microorganisms particularly bacteria for acting as a source of N, P,
K, Zn, Fe, S, etc., for enriching the soil in a balanced ecosystem (Pandey et al. 2018).
Thus, the major emphasis has been laid down on the promising role of endophytes for
green agriculture and to understand them for evolving in plant–microbe interaction
processes in the holobionts. The endophytic microbial communities are intimately
associated with a different degree with cells and tissues of the plant and form a
microbial hub composed of strongly interconnected taxa that grow under the neutral
benefit.
We undoubtedly made great advances in the commercialization of biofertilizers
as biopesticides in bioremediation and microbial inoculants. The advancement of
knowledge realized us that endophytes living in plant tissues are significantly more
potential to mineralize soil nutrients than free-living bacteria . It has given us a
wake-up call to reboot our scientific quest and pay much more attention to those
hidden microbes and turn toward mother nature for solutions to the problems of
today, i.e., lack of food for humans and animal feed (Arora 2018). The past two
D. K. Maheshwari (B)
Department of Botany and Microbiology, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar,
Uttarakhand, India
e-mail: maheshwaridk@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
D. K. Maheshwari and S. Dheeman (eds.), Endophytes: Mineral Nutrient
Management, Volume 3, Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 26,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65447-4_15
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Conclusion
Dinesh Kumar Maheshwari
The scientists so far have paid much attention to the understanding of plant beneficial
free-living and symbiotic bacteria and only recently realized to look deeper into
those microorganisms inhabiting inside the plant tissues and remain asymptomatic
(Nerva et al. 2019). The symptomless plants bear certain group of microorganisms
which play a vital role in growth and health, promotion of the plants, named as
“Endophytes.” These microorganisms include bacteria, actinobacteria, and fungi
having the main source of agrobiological interest. They create a host plant–endophyte
relationship to provide a beneficial alternative for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
due to their diverse potential for sustainable agroecosystem. Information is given
about endophytic microorganisms particularly bacteria for acting as a source of N, P,
K, Zn, Fe, S, etc., for enriching the soil in a balanced ecosystem (Pandey et al. 2018).
Thus, the major emphasis has been laid down on the promising role of endophytes for
green agriculture and to understand them for evolving in plant–microbe interaction
processes in the holobionts. The endophytic microbial communities are intimately
associated with a different degree with cells and tissues of the plant and form a
microbial hub composed of strongly interconnected taxa that grow under the neutral
benefit.
We undoubtedly made great advances in the commercialization of biofertilizers
as biopesticides in bioremediation and microbial inoculants. The advancement of
knowledge realized us that endophytes living in plant tissues are significantly more
potential to mineralize soil nutrients than free-living bacteria . It has given us a
wake-up call to reboot our scientific quest and pay much more attention to those
hidden microbes and turn toward mother nature for solutions to the problems of
today, i.e., lack of food for humans and animal feed (Arora 2018). The past two
D. K. Maheshwari (B)
Department of Botany and Microbiology, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar,
Uttarakhand, India
e-mail: maheshwaridk@gmail.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
D. K. Maheshwari and S. Dheeman (eds.), Endophytes: Mineral Nutrient
Management, Volume 3, Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 26,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65447-4_15
331