Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: A Potential Tool for Enhancing Crop Productivity in Salt Affected Soil

AMF have been mentioned in several literatures for long time for their beneficial role in crop growth and productivity. However, recently they are talked about for efficient abiotic stress management which received equal attention among researchers. Salinity is such an abiotic stress faced by crop plants that can be minimized by assistance of AMF. In this article, we have discussed the possible mechanism and the identified species of AMF for abatement of salinity stress of plants by citing some suitable examples, apart from the harmful effects in crop plants’ functioning due to salinity usually take place. Though there is lots of scope of further research, this illustrative piece of information may generate interest among farmers and other common people.

AM fungi are potential bio-remediation tool to alleviate salt stress in crops grown in saline soil for sustaining crop productivity in an eco-friendly way.