Review on the Role of Soil Microorganisms on Soil Physico-Chemical Properties and Plant Growth

Abstract

The review summarizes the literature on the role of soil microorganisms on soil physico-chemical properties and plant growth. Most of investigators confirmed that Soil microbial activity is very important to improve soil health for Healthy crop growth because microorganisms play an important role in building a complex link between plants and soil. Soil microbes are a dynamic component of soil and performed many beneficial functions in the soil system. Microbes help in different biological transformation such as organic matter conversion and biological nitrogen fixation. Moreover, they enhanced the availability of nutrients to the plants. Typically, one gram of soil having more than 90 million bacteria help plants in nutrient uptake by conversion of unavailable nutrients into available form. Due to lack of knowledge regarding their importance, people think about the negative impact of microorganisms because in many cases microbes act as disease-causing agents. However, according to the agricultural point of view microbes are very well beneficial for plant growth. Now a day’s biotic stress is a big challenge for agrarian because dramatic increase in the human population is causing land degradation and reduces the microbial population which ultimately negatively affect the plant growth. Therefore, the present review describes the role of soil microbes in agricultural crop production.

Keywords: Crop Production, Organic Matter, Soil Fertility, Soil Healthy, Soil Microbes

DOI: 10.7176/JNSR/14-10-01

Publication date:July 31^st 2023