Abstract
Microbes, plants, animals, and human beings are intricately related to each other. In quite a few scenarios, these organisms live in close association with each other, for example, in rhizosphere, phyllosphere, etc. (Lindow and Brandl 2003). Epiphytes harbor microbes which prove helpful to the host (Hempel et al. 2008). Endophytic fungi prevent diseases and provide drought tolerance to Poaceae (grasses), and mycorrhizal fungi form symbiosis with vascular plants and protect them from diseases and enable them to sequester phosphate from the soil (Khan 2006; Rodriguez et al. 2009). Among all the symbiotic relationships, nitrogen fixation by rhizobia-legume interaction can be listed as the most beneficial outcomes (Drevon et al. 1987, 1988; Zhuang et al. 2013; Gao et al. 2014).
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Kalia, V.C. (2015). Microbes: The Most Friendly Beings?. In: Kalia, V. (eds) Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching: A Battle with No End in Sight. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1982-8_1
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