Arbuscular mycorrhiza in combating abiotic stresses in vegetables: An eco-friendly approach |
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Authors: | Gurdeep Singh Malhi Manpreet Kaur Prashant Kaushik Mohammed Nasser Alyemeni Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli Parvaiz Ahmad |
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Institution: | 1. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India;2. CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India;3. Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain;4. Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;5. Department of Botany, S.P. College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190001, India |
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Abstract: | Vegetable production is hampered by several abiotic stresses which are very common in this era of climate change. There is a huge pressure on the plants to survive and yield better results even in the prevalence of various environmental stresses such as cold stress, drought, heat stress, salinity etc. This necessitates the need of robust plant growth which is possible with mycorrhizal association. Mycorrhiza improves plants tolerance to several abiotic stresses by various physiological, functional and biochemical changes in plants. The application of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) as vegetable biofertilizers doesn’t only influence the plant health, but moreover discursively it lowers the demand for harmful chemical fertilizers. Overall, it may be concluded that inoculation of vegetables with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can be used, as it easily guards plants against undesirable abiotic stresses. In this work, information is provided based on several examples from the literature based on the application of AM to combat harmful abiotic stresses in vegetable crops. This paper reviews the impacts of AM fungi on the plant parameters, its functional activities and molecular mechanisms which makes it more adaptable and underline the future prospects of using AM fungi as a biofertilizer in the stress condition. |
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Keywords: | Abiotic stress Cold stress Climate change Drought Heat stress Salinity Vegetables |
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