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

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