Using Bacteria and Fungi as Plant Biostimulants for Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems

Abstract: Different compounds with bioactive constitutents can be applied as biostimulants to increase plant growth and development under both normal and stressful conditions. Biostimulants utilization can be considered as a sustainable and beneficial nutritional crop management, and may decrease the negative impacts associated with excessive chemical fertilization. Google scholar (scholar.google.com), Science Direct (sicencedirect.com), CAB Direct (cabdirect.org), Springer Link (springerlink.com), Scopus (scopus.com), Web of Science (web of knowledge.com), Taylor and Francis (tandfonline.com), and Wiley Online Library (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) have been checked. The search was done to all manuscript sections according to terms "Glomus intraradices", "Trichoderma atroviride", "Trichoderma reesei", "Heteroconium chaetospira", "Artherobacter spp.", "Acinetobacter spp.", "Enterobacer spp.", "Pseudomonas spp.", "Ochrobactrum spp.", "Bacilus spp.", "Rhodococcus spp.", "Biostimulants", and "Plant growth promotion". On the basis of initial check, Titles and Abstracts have been reviwed on the basis of online literature, and then articles were read carefully. Withinin the framework of sustainable crop management, this review article was aimed to provide an overview of the application of the most common fungi and bacteria as plant biostimulants on various crops.