ABSTRACT
Sustainable crop production is an elementary obligation in today’s world, although it is travailing from major challenges due to poor agricultural practices. To meet the loads of an escalating population, a substantial encumbrance has been enforced on agriculture by the excessive practice of chemical-based fertilizers such as urea and pesticides such as DDT, which causes salt deposition and leads to salinity of soil. To overcome such an issue, improvement in throughput and sustainability in the field of agriculture is required by working on naturally safe and worthwhile efforts; targeting deprived usage of fertilizers and pesticides is obligatory. The microbes residing within the tissue of the plant but not instigating ostensible damage to the plant are termed as ‘endophytes’. Endophytes are the bioinoculants that are the potential source of numerous compounds that can improve growth of plant and eradicate pathogens, which can be exploited in sustainable agricultural practices. Endophytic bioinoculants do not only provide plant growth-promoting metabolites, but they also empower the plant to fight back against adverse/stress conditions such as salinity stress or draught stress. These microbe bioinoculants have the potency to yield growth-stimulating phytochemicals that can inhibit the growth of phytopathogens, leading to virtuous agricultural yields. The exploitation of endophytic bioinoculants with diverse engagements may perhaps be advantageous in declining the usage of chemically-based pesticides and fertilizers, which cause salinity stress-like conditions and can lead to sustainable agriculture.
