Recent decades have witnessed increased agricultural production to match the global
demand for food fueled by population increase. Conventional agricultural practices are
heavily reliant on artificial fertilizers that have numerous human and environmental health
effects. Cognizant of this, sustainability researchers and environmentalists have increased
their focus on other crop fertilization mechanisms. Biofertilizers are microbial formulations
constituted of indigenous plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) that directly or …