Microbial diversity of Uzbekistan

Plants are largely considered as meta-organisms due to their dependence on plant growth promoting soil bacterial (PGPB) communities. These beneficial PGPBs are known to enhance plant tolerance to several abiotic stresses, especially dry and salt stresses. In this work, we investigated the culturable plant-associated soil microbial community collected from different coastal sites of the East Aydarkul Lake region as a part an extensive study on plant-associated bacterial communities growing in the desert and salinizing areas of Uzbekistan to establish a minimal PGP microbial community with unique abilities to improve and restore the currently lost or being lost land areas by increasing plants resistance to multiple biotic and abiotic stresses.