Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Probiotics for Plants: Importance of Rhizobacteria on Aboveground Fitness in Plants....Pages 1-14 Bacterial Inoculants for Field Applications Under Mountain Ecosystem: Present Initiatives and Future Prospects....Pages 15-44 Potential Use of Soil Microbial Community in Agriculture....Pages 45-64 Impact of Application of Biofertilizers on Soil Structure and Resident Microbial Community Structure and Function....Pages 65-77 The Impact of Mycorrhizosphere Bacterial Communities on Soil Biofunctioning in Tropical and Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems....Pages 79-95 Ecology of Bacterial Endophytes in Sustainable Agriculture....Pages 97-126 Strategies for the Exploration and Development of Biofertilizer....Pages 127-139 Endophytic Bacteria and Their Role in Legumes Growth Promotion....Pages 141-168 Role of PGPR Under Different Agroclimatic Conditions....Pages 169-183 Consortium of Plant-Growth-Promoting Bacteria: Future Perspective in Agriculture....Pages 185-200 Signals in the Rhizosphere and Their Effects on the Interactions Between Microorganisms and Plants....Pages 201-211 Role of Plant: Microbe Interactions in the Sustainable Development of Muga Sericulture....Pages 213-225 Arabidopsis as a Model System to Decipher the Diversity and Complexity of Plant Responses to Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria....Pages 227-249 Interactions of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes and Plant-Pathogenic Bacteria....Pages 251-267 PGPR-Mediated Systemic Resistance for Sustainable Agriculture....Pages 269-285 Potential of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria for Sustainable Agriculture....Pages 287-313 Contribution of N 2 Fixation for the World Agriculture....Pages 315-324 Plant Probiotics in Phosphorus Nutrition in Crops, with Special Reference to Rice....Pages 325-363 Back Matter....Pages 365-371