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Diversity of Cold Tolerant Phosphate Solubilizing Microorganisms from North Western Himalayas

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Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable Agriculture

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Abstract

The environmental conditions on planet earth are extremely diverse, with enormous variations in pressure, pH, temperature and salt concentration. All these environments are inhabited by living organisms, particularly microorganisms which have adapted to the different extremes of environments. Among various extreme environments, low temperature is very common both in natural and man-made environments. Microorganisms play a significant role for maintaining the ecological balance in any ecosystem. During the long journey of evolution, they have undergone changes at different levels for adaptation and thus show huge genetic diversity for exploration. Extremely low temperature environments are generally inhabited by the cold adapted microorganisms which have the ability to grow and survive under harsh conditions. These cold adapted microorganisms, known as cold loving (psychrophiles) and cold tolerant (psychrotrophs).

The North Western Himalayan region that extends over the states of Jammu Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in India presents a virgin opportunity for exploration and characterization of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant microorganisms, due to the unique ecological niche of the region that includes glaciers, alpine and sub alpine regions. Soil of such regions is mountaineous that is deficient in various materials. Phosphorus is second to nitrogen as a mineral nutrient required by plants and microorganisms, its major physiological role being in certain essential steps, the accumulation and release of energy during cellular metabolism. Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for plants, lack of which limits plant growth. It is least soluble in the soil. This chapter deals with the diversity of cold tolerant P solubilizing microorganisms from North Western Himalayas and their effect on plants with special reference to that of management of phosphorous by using cold tolerant PGPRs in improving soil quality and productivity of agricultural crops.

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This study was supported by Indian Council of Agricultural Research, under the project ‘‘Application of Microorganisms in Agriculture and Allied Sectors”. PJ & T acknowledged the financial assistance received as JRF/ SRF.

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    Piyush Joshi,  Tanuja, Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Jaideep Kumar Bisht & Jagdish Chandra Bhatt

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Joshi, P., Joshi, G., Tanuja, Mishra, P., Bisht, J., Bhatt, J. (2014). Diversity of Cold Tolerant Phosphate Solubilizing Microorganisms from North Western Himalayas. In: Maheshwari, D. (eds) Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable Agriculture. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05936-5_10

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