Phytostimulation and ISR responses of fungi

Abstract

Our earth is blessed with many resources including the soil, the another world or home where various kinds of micro-organisms resides not only for their survival but also beneficiating the plants in growth development, stress tolerance capacity by the rhizofiltration of the heavy metals and other contaminants present in the soil. Soil pollution is one of the major ecological problem facing by the present modernized world as well as the plants. Fungi gives the potential to grow under stressed environment along with protection from the phytopathogens. In this chapter, we are going to discuss the different fungi responsible for the phytostimulation and Induced systemic resistance in plants. © 2021 Elsevier Inc.