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Agriculturists and farmers have been under pressure to fulfill the demands of the increasing population. Although the use of inorganic fertilizers benefited farmers by providing good and fast yields, but become progressively worse on the quality of soil by decreasing biomass and microbial activity. Therefore, now pressure to increase yield along with making sustainable progress has led to the usage of mycorrhizal fungi as biofertilizers. These fungi have been found to provide numerous and diverse benefits to soil, plants, and ecosystem by improving soil quality, concentrating nutrients in plants, providing resistance against drought and diseases, and helping in nutrient cycling. The AMF is known to be a very difficult fungus because its culture is difficult in vitro conditions and therefore proper procedures are needed to be followed and precautions are needed to be taken to get the desired pure yield of the fungus. The fungus if studied and researched properly can open many doors to new developments in the field of science and agriculture.
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Authors thank the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Government of India for the award of a doctoral fellowship to carry out research work at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. This research was supported by funds provided to TERI by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
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Kumar, S., Saxena, S., Samiksha (2021). Mycorrhiza: A Sustainable Option for Better Crop Production. In: Yadav, A.N., Singh, J., Singh, C., Yadav, N. (eds) Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture . Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6949-4_12
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