The Challenge of Combining High Yields with Environmentally Friendly Bioproducts: A Review on the Compatibility of Pesticides with Microbial Inoculants

Inoculants or biofertilizers aiming to partially fully replace chemical fertilizers are becoming increasingly important in agriculture, as there is a global perception of the need increase sustainability. In this review, we discuss some results inoculation variety crops with rhizobia and other plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB). Important improvements quality inoculants on release new strains formulations have been achieved. However, agriculture will continue demand pesticides, their low compatibility inoculants, especially when applied seeds, represents major limitation success inoculation. The differences between pesticides depend active principle, formulation, time application, period contact living microorganisms; however, general they high impact cell survival metabolism, affecting microbial contribution growth. New strategies solve incompatibility needed, those that proposed date still very modest terms demand.