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Zinc (Zn) is an essential and prime micronutrient needed in diminutive amount by agricultural crops for complete growth and development. It acts as an essential and key constituent of a variety of enzymatic reactions, carbohydrate metabolism, synthesis of proteins and auxin, and maintenance of cellular membrane veracity in plants. Zn is also an essential element in human diet as its deficiency affects normal development and functioning of nervous, immune, and skeletal systems. Crop plants and their consumable parts serve as major sources of Zn in human diet. Plants can uptake Zn as divalent cation, but a major portion of it exists in insoluble form in the soil and very little Zn becomes available to the plants. There are wide varieties of microbes which employ myriads of biological processes to make Zn available to plants from unavailable sources. These zinc-solubilizing microbes (ZSM) can be utilized as …