MICROBIAL AND NANOFERTILIZER FOR MITIGATING STRESS IN MEDICINAL PLANTS

Abstract

Providing food, feed, and agricultural products has significant challenges due to the world's expanding population, particularly in emerging nations. Synthetic fertilizers promote plant growth, but their traditional use has contaminated ecosystems, altered soil ecosystems, and may pose health hazards to humans. Climate conditions aggravate the effects of non-living stressors on crops, resulting in decreased agricultural productivity. Crop health and productivity are negatively impacted by both biotic and abiotic stressors, including diseases, temperature fluctuations, drought, and salt of the soil. In this context, biofertilizers are increasingly being used as a remedy to the issues listed above that carry out organic processes such as nitrogen fixation, nutrient solubilization, hormone synthesis and enzyme activity. The biofertilizer, microbial fertilizer was found to be most important in powering the health of plants and reducing stress of the plants. In the current review, we aim at elaborately discussing the importance of medical plants over the other groups of plants, how the concept of microbial fertilizers is precious, the impact of stress over medicinal plants and links it toward affecting their curative properties. Our main focus of this review will be to evaluate the efficacy of an The objective of this research is to enhance the ability of plants to withstand both living and non-living stressors. By studying the underlying mechanisms, this research also aims to gather valuable insights into sustainable agricultural practices. Additionally, this research seeks to explore the potential of microbial fertilizers as a more effective alternative for mitigating stress in medicinal plants. Climate change impacts agriculture productivity.Applicability of such microbial fertilizers resolves the constraints faced while using conventional chemical fertilizers, besides it is environmentally friendly, practical, economic and ecological.It promotes nice crop growth. It is an effective way to use microbes as a substitute to synthetic fertilizers and will improve natural plants for human health with microbial bio-fertilizers therefore the study also has global food safety importance in the herbal plants field.