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Agriculturally Important Fungi for Crop Productivity: Current Research and Future Challenges

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Agriculturally Important Fungi for Sustainable Agriculture

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Agriculture is the most expanded sector that uses wide range chemical based fertilizers to increase the productivity in order to feed the growing population. Chemical based fertilizers are causing serious threat to human health as well as to environment. To overcome this problem, ecofriendly techniques are being implemented for increasing crop productivity. Use of beneficial microbes as biofertilizers and biopesticides in agriculture sector are one of the methods that can pave way for the next agricultural green revolution. Beneficial fungi, associated with plants are playing essential role in the development and growth of plants through various mechanisms including solubilization of different insoluble and unavailable nutrients and production of plant growth regulators. Fungi also helps in alleviation biotic stresses like plant pest and pathogen and abiotic stresses like drought, salinity, temperature, heavy metals. Fungi as biofertilizers in agriculture sector is one the emerging area for growth and enhance crop prodcution for sustainable agriculture. This chapter exclusively concluded the horizon covered book content of agriculturally important fungi for sustainable agriculture. The concluding remark envisioned the future beneficial role of plant growth promoting fungal communities in plant growth promotion and soil fertility.

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The authors are grateful to the Department of Biotechnology, Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib and Department of Environment, Science & Technology (DEST), Shimla funded project “Development of microbial consortium as bio-inoculants for drought and low temperature growing crops for organic farming in Himachal Pradesh” for providing the facilities and financial support, to undertake the investigations. There are no conflicts of interest.

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Yadav, A.N., Kour, D., Kaur, T., Devi, R., Yadav, N. (2020). Agriculturally Important Fungi for Crop Productivity: Current Research and Future Challenges. In: Yadav, A., Mishra, S., Kour, D., Yadav, N., Kumar, A. (eds) Agriculturally Important Fungi for Sustainable Agriculture. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45971-0_12

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